Police bias against IRA at fault: report
(NEWSER) - When a bomb ripped through a Belfast bar in 1971, killing 15, biased cops unjustly blamed the Provisional IRA, a new police report says. Though the bombing was at a Catholic-owned bar, police considered it to be an accidental explosion as the IRA prepared a bomb—the so-called “own-goal” theory, Reuters notes. Victims' families today welcomed the findings, reports the Belfast Telegraph, which they said cleared their loved ones of the four-decade-old allegation that they were would-be bombers. More»
