Ballymurphy Inquest Day 1
1st Day of the Ballymurphy Massacre Inquest
Blog by Mary McCallan
Opening day of the Ballymurphy inquests
47 years since the killing of ten civilians in Ballymurphy...
Samuel Marshall Inquest daily summaries. Day 1: 20/3/23
The inquest into the death of Samuel ‘Sam’ Marshall began Monday, 20 March 2023. The inquest begins more than 32 years after Mr Marshall’s...
Unsatisfactory verdict in the Roseanne Mallon inquest
Blog by Mike Ritchie
More than three and a half years – yes, three and a half years! – after the conclusion of all the...
Springhill Inquest Tuesday 21st February 2023
By Paul Butler
The second day of the Springhill inquest was taken up mostly with counsel for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) outlining the legal...
Review of legacy inquests
Presiding coroner, Mr. Justice Michael Humphreys, has conducted a review of legacy inquests to see how they are progressing with a view, in particular,...
Pat Irvine speaks about impact of failure to deal with the...
Pat Irvine is the daughter of Kathleen Irvine, one of 15 killed in McGurk's Bar December 1971. We have great pleasure in hosting her...
The Scandal of Hidden State Files on Murdered Children
We were shocked when our colleagues in the Pat Finucane Centre told us that they have found that files at Kew National Archives referring...
Dessie Healey, 14 yrs, Family Report Launch
Today marks the 51st anniversary of the murder of Desmond ‘Dessie’ Healey. He was only 14 years old, a schoolboy, when he was killed...
Family Report into the death of Thomas Burns
Last week the family of Thomas Burns launched their report, compiled with Relatives for Justice, into the death of their father/grandfather Thomas Burns. The...
Remembering Peter Thompson
It’s Saturday 13th of January today - I never do this as part of my job at RFJ, speak to or write about the...
