Patrick Mcveigh

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File photo from September 1994 of former priest Patrick Ryan whose extradition to the UK had been sought by Margaret Thatcher’s government. Photograph: Martin McCullough/PA Wire
Thatcher furious with Haughey over failure to extradite ‘mad priest’ over IRA claims

A furious British prime minister Margaret Thatcher rounded on taoiseach Charles Haughey for delays in extraditing Fr Patrick Ryan – an Irish priest wa(...)

North’s DPP seeks PSNI inquiry on shoot-to-kill policy claims

The North’s Director of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory has asked the PSNI chief constable Matt Baggott to investigate claims and admissions that a(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams: said the programme shone a light on one aspect of “Britain’s dirty war” in Ireland. Photograph: Paddy Whelan
British to investigate claims on 1972 shoot-to-kill policy

The British ministry of defence is to investigate claims that a British army plainclothes undercover unit under the command of an army brigadier opera(...)

Former members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF) said that they killed an unspecified number of IRA members and shot them regardless of whether or not they were armed.
Army 'sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy' in Belfast

The British army ran an undercover unit that operated a sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy in Belfast during the Troubles, it has been claimed.Former mem(...)