The Belturbet bomb: an atrocity that time forgot
RTÉ Investigates has uncovered a series of new details that shed light on a 1972 car bombing that killed two teenagers in Co Cavan.
• 3 Feb 2021
RTÉ Investigates
Sculptor Mel French regards the bronze statue in Belturbet as her most personal project. Two handsome figures – a long-haired schoolgirl with dancing shoes and an athletic young man with a football at his feet – face out onto Main Street. These sculptures represent two teenagers, local girl Geraldine O Reilly, 15, and Paddy Stanley, 16, from Clara, Co Offaly, both of whom perished on 28 December 1972 when a powerful car bomb ripped through the Co Cavan border town.
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This special programme looks at a report on the attack by loyalist paramilitaries in Belturbet, Co Cavan, on December 28, 1972, when a car bomb killed teenagers Geraldine O’Reilly (15) and Patrick Stanley (16).
Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombing but security services believe the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) carried out the attack.
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In 1972, just three days after Christmas, a no-warning car bomb killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Belturbet Co.Cavan.
In a special documentary next Monday night, December 14, RTÉ Investigates uncovers a crippling lack of trust between police services north and south, questions the political will to bring those behind the Belturbet bomb to justice, and reveals new evidence that British security forces failed to act on credible information, allowing militant loyalists to operate freely in South Fermanagh.
On Thursday night, December 28, 1972, a Ford Escort from Enniskillen passed a garda checkpoint at Aghalane bridge, headed south for Belturbet, across the River Shannon, up Bridge Street past The Diamond before parking in Main Street across the road from Slowey’s chip shop. It was here the car bomb was primed and left waiting.
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