The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. Towards a public inquiry?
The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. Towards a public inquiry?
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Introduction to the murder of Seamus Ludlow and the official cover-up. Michael Cunningham investigation - 1978 The recent Campaign for Truth and Justice. Irish Victims Commission Report. Ludlow family's questions for the RUC (now the PSNI). Jim J. Kane's letter to the N I Human Rights Commission. Jim J. Kane's letter to the RUC Ludlow Family Letter to Bertie Ahern Other Ludlow Family Sites. |
The Irish Times, 13 October 1999: Victims seek wider inquiry By Tim O'Brien A new group calling itself Border Relatives, whose membership is drawn from families of victims of terrorist attacks along the Border throughout the 1970s, has called on the Government to extend the scope of the Wilson inquiry to cover the bombing of the Three Star Inn in Castleblaney, Co Monaghan, in 1976. The group, which held a press conference in Dublin yesterday, said it was convinced the Garda knew "from the earliest times" the identity of those responsible for a number of murders and "up to 50 attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in the 1970s in the south". Mr Peter O'Connor, a victim of the bombing of Kay's Tavern in Dundalk in 1975, said he was convinced the security forces on both sides of the Border had colluded to target the IRA and ensure the passage of emergency powers legislation through the Dail later that year. Mr Jimmy Sharkey said he had been told by senior gardai they knew who had murdered his uncle, Seamus Ludlow. However, for many years he and his family "had been fed the lie" that their uncle had been killed by the IRA because he was an informer. Recently the Taoiseach announced the inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings would be extended to cover the bombing of Kay's Tavern Pub in Dundalk in December 1975 and the murder of Mr Ludlow (48), a forestry worker who was abducted and shot while thumbing a lift north of Dundalk in 1976. The group says it is non-political and non-sectarian and has pledged to work alongside Justice for the Forgotten to ensure that "nobody is forgotten and justice is finally done".
I Homepage I I Top I I Press Coverage I I BIRW Report I I Irish Victims Commission Report I I Dundalk Bombing I The Irish News, 13 October 1999: Families call for inquiries into loyalist murders The Dundalk Democrat, 22 December 2001: Dundalk bomb victims' families still waiting on public inquiry The Dundalk Democrat, 26 January 2002: Blayney bombing to feature in new book
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