Bomb attack on RUC canteen
- Title
- Bomb attack on RUC canteen
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 1 Mar 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:04:36
- Description
- Report on an IRA mortar attack on an RUC canteen in Newry, County Down, which has killed nine police officers. Speaking are: female eyewitness (not identified); Chief Superintendent Bill Stewart; Reverend Ian Paisley, DUP leader; Michael MacAtamney, RUC. Male reporter not identified. (Those killed were: Chief Inspector Alexander Donaldson, 41; Sergeant John Thomas Dowd, 31; Constable Ivy Winifred Kelly, 29; Constable Rosemary Elizabeth M’Gookin, 27; Constable David Peter Topping, 22; Reserve Constable Sean Brian McHenry, 19; Reserve Constable Geoffrey Kenneth Campbell, 24; Reserve Constable Denis Anthony Price, 22; Reserve Constable Paul Hilary McFerran, 33).
- Contributors
- Ian Paisley; Bill Stewart; Michael MacAtamney
- Keywords
- Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Police; Terrorists; IRA; Homicide; Policemen; Bombs; RUC; County Down; Newry
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