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The Taoiseach will travel to the UK to meet with Boris Johnson tomorrow.
It comes amid increasing tensions over Brexit, the UK’s response to the Ballymurphy inquest and plans to introduce an amnesty for crimes committed during the Troubles.
The meeting is due to take place at the UK Prime Minister’s Chequers country estate.
NEW: Taoiseach Micheál Martin will travel to London tomorrow for a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Expected the two will discuss Northern Ireland, Troubles amnesty, Ballymurphy inquest, Brexit and Ireland/UK relations
In a phone call with Mr Johnson Northern Irish political leaders yesterday apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the Ballymurphy massacre, in which ten people were killed and another person died.
Catholic victims of 1971 Northern Ireland massacre entirely innocent
Coroner rules that the deaths of a priest and nine lay Catholics shot dead by British troops were unjustified
Updated: May 12, 2021 05:17 AM GMT
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Rita Bonner holds up a picture of her brother John Laverty as she arrives for the verdict at the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest at Waterfront Hall in Belfast on May 11. (Photo: Paul Faith/AFP)
A coroner in Northern Ireland has ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were entirely innocent and their deaths were unjustified.
What became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast in 1971 remains one of the most controversial incidents in the conflict in the region and, at the time, British authorities referred to those killed as terrorists.
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The UK Prime Minister called First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster to apologise unreservedly on behalf of the British government for the events that took place in Ballymurphy as well as the five decades of delay in investigating. The prime minister apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK government for the events that took place in Ballymurphy and the huge anguish that the lengthy pursuit of truth has caused the families of those killed, a Downing Street spokesman said.
Hours earlier, former prime minister Tony Blair called for a truth and reconciliation commission for Northern Ireland to address historical crimes on both sides of The Troubles.
Boris Johnson has apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the Ballymurphy Massacre.
Downing Street said the British Prime Minister made the apology in a call with Northern Ireland’s First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill this evening.
“The Prime Minister apologised unreservedly on behalf of the UK Government for the
events that took place in Ballymurphy and the huge anguish that the lengthy pursuit of truth has caused the families of those killed,” Downing Street said in a statement.
However, it noted that he also restated his ambition to deliver a way forward in the North that, “focuses on reconciliation, delivers for victims of the Troubles and ends the cycle of reinvestigations.”