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Plastic bullet death lawsuit (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Cathleen Stewart on why she is taking the case of her 13-year-old son Brian Stewart being killed by a plastic bullet shot by the Brtish army in Turf Lodge, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1976,...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Audio of the Decade - nd [1980-1984 ]

IRN Audio of the Decade 1980-1984. Events of 1980: Ronald Reagan winning the Presidential race. Jimmy Carter losing. Princess Diana been followed by the Press. End of the Iranian Embassy seige/Malcolm...

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Keith White killed by plastic bullet (1986)

Genre

News report

Report on the death of 20 year-old Keith White, a Protestant killed by a police plastic bullet during a protest in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Police stations are expected to be picketed in protest at...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Plastic bullet death lawsuit (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on Cathleen Stewart taking the case of her 13-year-old son Brian Stewart being killed by a plastic bullet by the British army in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1976 to the European court. Includes...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Keith White killed by plastic bullet (1986)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on a 20-minute industrial stoppage across Northern Ireland in protest at the death of Keith White, a 20 year-old Protestant killed by a police plastic bullet during demonstrations in Portadown on...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Belfast schoolboy killed by plastic bullet (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Derval Fitzsimons reports on the death of fifteen-year-old schoolboy, Seamus Duffy, who was killed by a plastic bullet in Belfast during a night of sporadic rioting which marked the eighteenth anniversary of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Diplomat’s wife escapes gunfire in Beijing (1989)

Genre

Interview

The home of a British diplomat in Beijing has been hit by machine gun fire. A stray bullet shattered a window of a flat in the diplomatic compound. Pat Farr, the wife of a naval attache, was in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Attempt to arrest NORAID’s Martin Galvin (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a US NORAID member about the behaviour of the security forces in Northern Ireland, after they tried to arrest NORAID leader Martin Galvin at a republican rally, leading to violence and the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Airline pilot rewarded for bravery (1986)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Hani Galal, the airline pilot whose plane (EgyptAir Flight 648) was hijacked in 10/85 by the Abu Nidal Organization. He killed one of the terrorists, and describes the injuries he sustained...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Police acquitted of manslaughter in Northern Ireland (1986)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Gerry Downes after Reserve Constable Nigel Hegarty was acquitted of killing his son, Sean, two years previously by firing a plastic bullet into him. He talks about his lack of confidence in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio