Will Northern Ireland shootings hamper Arms Commission?

Title

Will Northern Ireland shootings hamper Arms Commission?

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

3 Jan 1996

Year of production

1996

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Duration

00:04:30

Description

Jeff Collins reports on fears that recent shootings in Northern Ireland will hamper the work of the US-led International Arms Commission. Police and security sources believe petty crime-related shootings to be little more than terrorists masquerading as law and order crusaders. In the latest killing, that of Ian Lyons, a group calling themselves Direct Action Against Drugs said they killed the 31 year-old in Lurgan, County Armagh. Interviews with: Superintendent Cyril Donnan of the RUC; Professor Paul Bew, Professor of Irish Politics at Queens University in Belfast; former US congressman Bruce Morrison; Seamus Mallon of the nationalist SDLP. Sinn Fein’s senior representatives involved in talks with the British and Irish governments have been urged to disown the campaign of bloodshed.

Contributors

Jeff Collins; Seamus Mallon; Bruce Morrison; Cyril Donnan; Paul Bew

Keywords

Internal politics; Crime; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; IRA; Homicide; Drug abuse; Sinn Fein; Weapons; Bill Clinton; Ian Lyons; Direct Action Against Drugs; Lurgan; International Arms Commission

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