Ep. 35 What does justice look like? Part 1

The Tip Off

News, News & Politics

4.7 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The violent, protracted conflict known as The Troubles claimed many innocent victims in Northern Ireland. But one atrocity stood out for journalist Barry McCaffrey - the massacred of six men in the quiet, tiny village of Loughinisland. The killings stuck with him, in part because it seemed so clear who the suspects were, so why were they walking free?

Barry explains how he spent years digging into what happened after the massacre, an investigation that would be developed into the acclaimed Alex Gibney film No Stone Unturned. It is a story that would have unintended consequences…

Read all about it:

https://www.thedetail.tv/articles/loughinisland-collusion-or-myth

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Stone-Unturned-Aidan-OToole/dp/B078HQSC2M

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0:00.0	Lockham Island isn't about Northern Ireland.
0:07.0	It isn't about one atrocity.
0:09.0	It isn't even about the troubles.
0:12.0	It's about the state allowing the killing of its own citizens.
0:17.0	It was the 18th of June, 1994. And up and down Northern Ireland, the pubs were full of excited tension.
0:24.6	The Republic of Ireland football team were playing Italy in the World Cup.
0:29.6	In the small village of Lockin Island, in County Down, the local pub was crowded with 24 men.
0:36.6	Their rapt attention fixed on the small TV screen showing the big match.
0:41.5	It's being led out for the 16th time by Andy Townsend.
0:45.0	Let us now enjoy this moment.
0:46.9	Aaronnevin in the USA.
0:52.9	At 10 minutes past 10, two men dressed in boiler suits and balaclavas burst through the door.
1:02.0	One of them had an assault rifle and sprayed the room with more than 60 bullets. Six men were killed outright and another five were wounded.
1:14.2	It was one of the many, many atrocities committed by both sides during a long period of intense fighting in Northern Ireland, known as
1:19.4	The Troubles. But it was an episode that one journalist would never forget, and one that he
1:25.9	would find himself reporting on still, more than 20 years later.
1:30.3	I'm Maff McClendigan. This is the tip-off.
1:35.3	Could we just start with your name?
1:38.3	Barry McAfrey, a reporter with the Detail Investigations website in Belfast in Northern Ireland.
1:45.4	Barry still remembers where he was when he heard the news of what had happened in Loughan Island.
1:49.7	I can remember vividly.
1:51.8	I had been watching Ireland play at Lee.
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