The Murder of Seamus Ludlow in County Louth, May 1976. Towards a public inquiry?

 

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The Ludlow Family Response to the Barron Report.

Press Release on behalf of the Ludlow family issued on 5 November 2005.

Now that we have had the opportunity to consider the report of Mr Justice Barron published on 3rd November, we wish to make the following statement.

The Ludlow family wish to thank Mr Justice Barron and his staff for the painstaking work over the last number of years. It is clear that he was confronted with considerable obstruction from powerful sources. His report however has been a successful first step to establishing truth an achieving justice for our family. His findings have exposed what the family have known for many years, that there are disturbing unanswered questions of the utmost gravity in this case.

We are dismayed that despite his report being published we have still not received an apology from An Garda Siochana. This is particularly disappointing given that the then Commissioner Byrne acknowledged to Mr Justice Baron by letter dated 10 January 2003 that the main responsibility and blame lay with them. Given that some family members are of advanced years it was unnecessarily cruel to withhold an apology then and remains so now. We will have to consider other remedies.

We will of course co-operate with the Joint Oireachtas committee and will make a detailed submission to them. We will however stress that given the seriousness of the matters disclosed by Mr Justice Barron that what is required is a full sworn public inquiry with powers to compel witnesses and search for a seize evidence. We do not believe the committee itself can perform this function, particularly in the light of the Supreme Court decision in 2002 in the Abbeylara case.

The inquiry we seek should be established promptly and requested to perform its task as swiftly as possible. Such an inquiry would establish the facts surrounding the issues of great public concern that have come to light,

We note the comments of retired Commissioner Laurence Wren. Given our experience of the last three decades we believe that everyone should be given  the opportunity to publicly defend their good name as he wishes to do, and could do in the inquiry we seek.

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Download the Barron Report from the Oireachtas website (pdf file)

Read these excerpts from the published Barron Report:

PREFACE

THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION

THE GARDA INVESTIGATION

INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION

INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM RUC

COMPLAINTS OF LUDLOW-SHARKEY FAMILY

FURTHER INQUIRIES

RESPONSE TO LUDLOW FAMILY COMPLAINTS

DECISION OF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND)

THE INQUEST

ALLEGATIONS OF IRA INVOLVEMENT IN LUDLOW MURDER

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Remember: You can download to your computer a complete copy of the Barron Report on the murder of Seamus Ludlow  from the Oireachtas website (pdf file)

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The Ludlow family supports the campaign by the Rooney and Watters families of Dundalk for an inquiry into the murderous Dundalk Bombing of 19 December 1975 which resulted in the sectarian murder of Jack Rooney and Hugh Watters. 

Further information can be accessed at their campaign website.

Also visit:
Relatives for Justice  http://www.relativesforjustice.com/
Pat Finucane Centre http://www.www.patfinucanecentre.org
British Irish Rights Watch http://www.birw.org/
Irish Council for Civil Liberties  http://www.iccl.ie/
Celtic League  http://www.manxman.co.im/cleague/index.html
Justice for the Forgotten at http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/
 
The 1st. Barron Report on the May 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings can be downloaded in pdf format from: http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas/Committees-29th-D%E1il/jcjedwr-debates/InterimDubMon.pdf
 

The 2nd.Barron Report on the Dublin Bombings of 1972 and 1973, and other incidents along the Irish border, can be downloaded in pdf form from: http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/committees29thdail/jcjedwr/Dublin_Barron_Rep031204.pdf
 
 

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