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LMFM Radio online news report, 6 July 2006: Main Local News Headlines Hearings into report on Dundalk bombing to begin in September The Oireachtas Justice Committee says its hearings on the Barron Report into the 1975 Dundalk bombing will begin in late September. The report published yesterday evening failed to find conclusive evidence of British security force collusion in the attack, which claimed the lives of two local men. 60-year-old Hugh Watters and 51-year-old Jack Rooney died in the attack outside Kay's Tavern on Crowe Street on December 19th 1975. Committee Chairman Sean Ardagh said serious questions have been raised about the forensic investigation and the level of co-operation from the RUC. Speaking afterwards, Hugh Watter's daughter Margaret English said that over the past 31 years the families have been shown no respect. I Top I
See the Irish News, 5 July 2006: "Relatives 'furious' over Barron report blunder See also The Irish News online breaking news, 5 July 2006: Pub bombers 'treated better than victims' families' See also: Oireachtas press release of 5 July 2006. Daily Ireland, 6 July 2006: Blast victim’s relative hits out The Irish Examiner, 6 July 2006: Loyalists had licence to kill Catholics, finds inquiry The Irish Independent, 6 July 2006: Bombers 'treated better than victims' I Top I Produced in association with the Ludlow Family. Last edited: 17 July 2006 19:04:44 Visit the Ludlow family's website. Visit Justice for the Forgotten Statement by John Oliver Weir Download the Barron Inquiry Report into the 17 May 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings, (pdf file) Barron Report: on the Dublin Bombings of 1972 and 1973, can also be downloaded in pdf form Download the Barron Report into the murder of Seamus Ludlow from the Oireachtas website (pdf file) Copyright © 2006 the Rooney, Watters and Ludlow families. All rights reserved. Revised: July 17, 2006 .
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