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Omagh Support and Self Help Group Guide for Victims and Survivors
Omagh Support and Self Help Group Guide for Victims and Survivors Contents Page Number Foreword from the Chairman i General Information: 1 Victims Unit 1 Trauma Advisory Panels 2 Public Enquiries 3 Evacuation & Bomb Threat 7 Procedure Procedure for Telephone Bomb 9 Threat The Media 12 Practical Directory: 13 Financial & Welfare Advice 13 Legal Advice and Mediation 15 Housing Advice/Adaptations 17 Form Filling & General Advice 19 Transport 21 Health Directory: 23 General Information on PTSD 23 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy 24 Counselling and Mediation 25 Therapeutic Directory 36 Support and Representation: 45 Victims/Survivor Groups 45 Disclaimer: This Guide is intended to direct individuals towards possible sources of information, help and support. The inclusion of an organisation in this Guide should not be seen as an endorsement of the quality of services offered by that organisation. All information is correct at time of publication. QE5 and the Omagh Support and Self Help Group have taken every care in the preparation of the contents of this Guide, but cannot accept any liability for errors or omissions within. Foreword The Omagh Support and Self Help Group was formed in the aftermath of the 1998 Omagh bomb. The families themselves who came together and formed this group shared a common suffering and came from all shades of religious and political opinion. I believe it is our diversity that is our strength, and not our weakness. We have co-operated with QE5 Consultants to help create this guide. The last six years have seen a prolific growth of interest in Victims and Victims-related issues. -
His Honour Judge Peter Smithwick for the Tribunal
A P P E A R A N C E S The Sole Member: His Honour Judge Peter Smithwick For the Tribunal: Mrs. Mary Laverty, SC Mr. Justin Dillon, SC Mr. Dara Hayes, BL Mr. Fintan Valentine, BL Instructed by: Jane McKevitt Solicitor For the Commissioner of An Garda Siochana: Mr. Diarmuid McGuinness, SC Mr. Michael Durack, SC Mr. Gareth Baker, BL Instructed by: Mary Cummins CSSO For Owen Corrigan: Mr. Jim O'Callaghan, SC Mr. Darren Lehane, BL Instructed by: Fintan Lawlor Lawlor Partners Solicitors For Leo Colton: Mr. Paul Callan, SC Mr. Eamon Coffey, BL Instructed by: Dermot Lavery Solicitors For Finbarr Hickey: Fionnuala O'Sullivan, BL Instructed by: James MacGuill & Co. For the Attorney General: Ms. Nuala Butler, SC Mr. Douglas Clarke, SC Instructed by: CSSO For Freddie Scappaticci: Eavanna Fitzgerald, BL Pauline O'Hare Instructed by: Michael Flanigan Solicitor For Kevin Fulton: Mr. Neil Rafferty, QC Instructed by: John McAtamney Solicitor For Breen Family: Mr. John McBurney For Buchanan Family/ Heather Currie: Ernie Waterworth McCartan Turkington Breen Solicitors For the PSNI: Mark Robinson, BL NOTICE: A WORD INDEX IS PROVIDED AT THE BACK OF THIS TRANSCRIPT. THIS IS A USEFUL INDEXING SYSTEM, WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO QUICKLY SEE THE WORDS USED IN THE TRANSCRIPT, WHERE THEY OCCUR AND HOW OFTEN. EXAMPLE: - DOYLE [2] 30:28 45:17 THE WORD “DOYLE” OCCURS TWICE PAGE 30, LINE 28 PAGE 45, LINE 17 I N D E X Witness Page No. Line No. OWEN CORRIGAN CROSS-EXAMINED BY MR. O'CALLAGHAN 4 1 Smithwick Tribunal - 1 August 2012 - Day 119 1 1 THE TRIBUNAL RESUMED ON THE 1ST AUGUST 2012 AS FOLLOWS: 2 3 MR. -
The Sirmoor Rifles) Regimental Trust 60 Property and PRI 61
0 The Queen’s Truncheon at the 200th Anniversary Lunch (see story p.48) 1 http://www.2ndgoorkhas.com CONTENTS President’s Foreword 3 Chairman’s Letter 5 Editorial 7 Honorary Secretary’s Notes Membership 8 2GR Website 8 Diary of Forthcoming Events 9 Notices 10 The Sirmoor Register Deaths 11 Obituaries 11 Sirmoor Club Members’ News 21 Sirmoor Club Activities - Sirmoor Golf Society 24 - Sirmoor Shooting 26 Royal Gurkha Rifles Newsletters 37 Articles General Frederick Young 43 The Sirmoor Club 200th Anniversary Lunch 48 A Sirmoor Tale from Kohima 54 Gurkha Stamps 55 Books 56 Trustees of the 2nd Goorkhas (The Sirmoor Rifles) Regimental Trust 60 Property and PRI 61 Editor: Nick Hinton, 24 Gilpin Avenue, London SW14 8QY; Phone 0208 876 3136 or 07808 247861, Email: [email protected]. All rights reserved. Contents of The Sirmooree may not be reproduced without prior permission of the Editor. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Sirmoor Club or the Editor. 2 http://www.2ndgoorkhas.com PRESIDENT’S FOREWORD Dear Sirmoorees, This is my first foreword as the new President of the Sirmoor Club, having taken over the reins from Lieutenant General Sir Peter Duffell in September last year. I must therefore start with an apology, in that duty precludes me from being with you all physically until December this year. I am currently the Chief Mentor leading a team of British, Australian, New Zealand and Danish Mentors who are developing the Afghan National Army Officer Academy and training their instructors, at Qargha, Kabul on a 14 month tour. It is a beautiful location surrounded by hills and snow-covered mountains at 6000 feet. -
Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland News Catalog - Irish News Article
Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article Bereaved urge Adams — reveal truth on HOME agents This article appears thanks to the Irish News. History (Allison Morris, Irish News) Subscribe to the Irish News NewsoftheIrish The children of a Co Tyrone couple murdered by loyalists have challenged Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams to call on the IRA to reveal publicly what it knows about British agents Book Reviews working in its ranks. & Book Forum Charlie Fox (63) and his wife Tess (53) were shot at their Search / Archive home in Moy, Co Tyrone, in September 1992 by the UVF. Back to 10/96 Mrs Fox was hit in the back. Her husband was shot in the Papers head. Reference Their children spoke out yesterday (Tuesday) after a Sinn Féin 'march for truth' on Sunday which called for collusion between the British state and loyalists to be exposed and at About which Mr Adams said: "Yes, the British recruited, blackmailed, tricked, intimidated and bribed individual republicans into working for them and I think it would be Contact only right to have this dimension of British strategy investigated also." Leading loyalist Laurence George Maguire was convicted in 1994 of directing the UVF gang responsible for murdering Mr and Mrs Fox. A week before the couple's deaths their son Patrick Fox was jailed for 12 years for possession of explosives. He said yesterday that while he welcomed Mr Adams's call for disclosure on British collusion with loyalists, the truth about republican agents must be revealed. "We know now that there were moves towards a ceasefire being made as far back as 1986," he said. -
Terror & Elhárítás 2017/3. Szám Terrorizmus
TERROR & ELHÁRÍTÁS 2017/3. SZÁM TERRORIZMUS Veress Gábor 1 – Dr. Bács Zoltán György2 Az észak-írországi terrorizmus3 Politikai és szakmai útkeresés a fegyveres harctól az integrációig Abstract The aim of the present study is to help to know and understand the terrorism in Northern Ireland, rarely highlighted in the Hungarian political literature. The authors analyze in details the conditions led to the terrorism in Northern Ireland and the history of actions committed by the IRA. Applying a new approach the authors present the international connections of the of the IRA, its structure and the main leaders, the new security environment, challenges and the ongoing transformations. 1 a Terrorelhárítási Központ munkatársa 2 egyetemi szakoktató, a Nemzeti Közszolgálati Egyetem Nemzetbiztonsági Intézet Terrorelhárítási Tanszékének oktatója 3 A tanulmány alapja Veress Gábor szakdolgozata, amely már megírásakor, 2016-ban is alkalmas volt szakmai segédanyagként való felhasználásra. A tanulmányban terjedelmi okokból – a tanulmány tárgyához szorosan kapcsolódó részeket nem érintve – történtek rövidítések. 113 TERROR & ELHÁRÍTÁS 2017/3. SZÁM TERRORIZMUS Bevezetés helyett A terrorizmus a modernkori szóhasználatba mintegy ötven éve került be újra, amikor az első repülőgép eltérítő – Raffaele Minichiello – Rómába térített egy amerikai utasszállító gépet. A tett ekkor még nem politikai célú volt, ám a módszert kiválóan alkalmazhatónak ítélték a sajátos politikai, gazdasági célokat esetleg vallási frazeológiával is leplező csoportok. Az elmúlt, közel ötven -
9Th February 2017 Chairman
9th February 2017 Chairman: Councillor O Gawith Vice-Chairman: Councillor B Mallon Aldermen: J Dillon MBE, D Drysdale, A Ewart, T Jeffers, W Leathem, Councillors: T Beckett, S Carson, J Craig, A Ewing, A Grehan, B Hanvey, V Kamble and A McIntyre Ex Officio The Right Worshipful The Mayor, Councillor B Bloomfield MBE Deputy Mayor, Alderman S Martin The Monthly Meeting of the Corporate Services Committee will be held in the Cherry Room, Island Civic Centre, The Island, Lisburn on Tuesday 14th February 2017 at 7.00 pm for the transaction of business on the undernoted Agenda. Tea/coffee shall be available in the Members’ Suite after the meeting. You are requested to attend. DR THERESA DONALDSON Chief Executive Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Agenda 1 Apologies 2 Declarations of Interest 3 Minutes – Meeting of Corporate Services Committee held on 10th January 2017 Special Meeting of Corporate Services Committee held on 25th January 2017 4 Report from Director of Corporate Services 1 Report of Head of Central Support Services • Electronic Records & Document Management System (ERDMS) • Fly a Flag for Commonwealth Day – 13th March 2017 • HMS Hibernia • Catering Contract at Lagan Valley Island • Legal Services Contract • Department of Health Consultation on the Reformed IFR (Individual Funding Request) Policy Document and Guide for Patients and Service Users (Closing Date: 7th April 2017) • Health Working Group – Membership • Policy Forum Seminar “Improving Mental Health Provision in NI: Prevention, Treatment & Developments in Care” 17th January -
Anti-Terrorist Responses in Crisis Situations
ANTI-TERRORIST RESPONSES IN CRISIS SITUATIONS By William R. Matchett, MSSc (Dist) Detective of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Associate Lecturer at the European Police College at Bramshill (CEPOL), United Kingdom (The research does not represent the views of the PSNI) CONTENTS PAGE NUMBER 1.0 PREAMBLE ............................................................................................. 2 2.0 CRISIS – Emerging Threat & Overreaction .......................................... 3 2.01 Causes of Conflict: .............................................................................. 3 2.02 A complex Problem - Terrorism: .......................................................... 4 3.0 CRISIS - Elite PIRA Units & Tough Law ................................................ 5 3.01Divided Support: ................................................................................... 5 3.02 Identified Solution - Hybrid Model: ...................................................... 7 3.03 Tip of the Spear: .................................................................................. 7 3.04 Misconceptions: .................................................................................. 9 3.05 Tough Law – Loughgall: .................................................................... 11 3.06 Lynagh & Al-Zarqawi: ........................................................................ 13 3.07 Tough Cop: ....................................................................................... 15 4.0 DELAYED CRISIS – Lack of Guidelines -
Battalion Army Cadet Force
CONNECTING WITH THE COMMUNITY RESERVE FORCES AND CADETS ASSOCIATION for Northern Ireland ANNUAL REPORT 2018 | 2019 CONTENTS RFCA NI OVERVIEW RFCA NI OVERVIEW 03 RFCA NI, like its twelve sister organisations across the UK, is a civilian, CHAIRMAN’S INTRODUCTION 04 autonomous, non-departmental government body (underpinned by an CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S SUMMARY 06 Act of Parliament) with a pre-scripted structure and membership that RESERVES 08 reaches across society throughout Northern Ireland. It has two formal EMPLOYERS 10 functions, namely: CADETS 11 SCHOOL CADET EXPANSION PROGRAMME 13 Non-Executive: The Association acts as a champion and conscience for PATHWAY ADVENTURE ACTIVITIES 13 Armed Forces reserves (circa 2,000) and cadets and their adult volunteers CIVIL ENGAGEMENT 14 (circa 5,000), as well as their stakeholders – employers, local authorities, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS 16 parents, schools etc. – across the Province. It does so through its ESTATES 17 voluntary members and Board, led by its Chairman, that report through a FINANCE 18 national board to the Defence Council and Parliament. UNIT SUMMARIES 19 Executive: Under the direction and responsibility of the Chief Executive, HMS Hibernia 20 the Association is accountable for: Royal Marines Reserves Belfast Detachment 23 2nd Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment (2 R Irish) 24 • Delivering reserve and cadet infrastructure. The Band Of The Royal Irish Regiment 26 • Administering and providing support – to differing degrees – to all 152 (North Irish) Regiment Royal Logistic Corps 28 types of cadet organisations. 204 (NI) Field Hospital 30 • Providing life support to reserves, including finance, recruiting, PR and 253 (North Irish) Medical Regiment 32 community relations. -
THE APPARATUS of IMPUNITY? Human Rights Violations and the Northern Ireland Conflict: a Narrative of Official Limitations on Post-Agreement Investigative Mechanisms
THE APPARATUS OF IMPUNITY? Human rights violations and the Northern Ireland conflict: a narrative of official limitations on post-Agreement investigative mechanisms Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) © Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The material may be reproduced, free of charge, in any format or medium without specific permission, provided the reproduction is not for financial or material gain.The material must be reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. If the material is to be republished or issued to others, acknowledgement must be given to its source, copyright status, and date of publication. This publication is available on our website. CAJ Committee on the Administration of Justice 2nd Floor, Sturgen Building 9-15 Queen Street Belfast BT1 6EA Tel: 028 9031 6000 Fax: 028 9031 4583 [email protected] www.caj.org.uk ISBN 978 1 873285 94 7 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) THE APPARATUS OF IMPUNITY? Human rights violations and the Northern Ireland conflict: a narrative of official limitations on post-Agreement investigative mechanisms Committee on the Administration of Justice January 2015 The Apparatus of Impunity? Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) Recent comments from key Council of Europe and UN human rights bodies in relation to existing mechanisms investigating the conflict in Northern Ireland: The absence of any plausible explanation for the failure to collect key evidence at the time when this was possible, and for attempts to even obstruct this process, should be treated with particular vigilance. -
Born on One Side of Partition: Reassessing Lessons Of
Executive Master’s in International Politics 2019-2020 Born on One Side of Partition: Reassessing Lessons of Northern Ireland’s Conflict from a st 21 -Century Multidisciplinary Perspective By JACQUELINE NOLAN Supervisor PROFESSOR GUY OLIVIER FAURE Professor of International Negotiation, Sorbonne University October 2020 i “History says, don’t hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme." (Seamus Heaney, ‘The Cure at Troy’) The question is: whose history? ii Abstract In the wake of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought an end to 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, the province became a ‘place of pilgrimage’ for people from other conflict zones in search of lessons and answers. This thesis revisits Northern Ireland’s lessons from a multidisciplinary and 21st-century perspective; it contends that to make sense of and resolve a conflict in a sustainable way, you have to not only under- stand it through substantive lenses, but also through emotional and behavioural ones – and likewise understand the interconnectedness between those lenses. It identifies relational and deep-seated themes common to other conflicts (like Israel-Palestine): de- monization, a siege mentality, the historical context of rifts in the relationship. Northern Ireland offered images of hope when former arch-enemies entered government together in 2007; yet this thesis shows that, in spite of political and social transformation, there is still too much societal psychological trauma, and too many unspoken, legacy- and identity-based blockers in the relationship to speak of a conflict resolution. -
Submission to the Baha Mousa Inquiry
British Irish RIGHTS WATCH SUBMISSION TO THE BAHA MOUSA INQUIRY SEPTEMBER 2010 1 1 Introduction 1.1 British Irish RIGHTS WATCH (BIRW) is an independent non- governmental organisation that has been monitoring the human rights dimension of the conflict, and the peace process, in Northern Ireland since 1990. Our vision is of a Northern Ireland in which respect for human rights is integral to all its institutions and experienced by all who live there. Our mission is to secure respect for human rights in Northern Ireland and to disseminate the human rights lessons learned from the Northern Ireland conflict in order to promote peace, reconciliation and the prevention of conflict. BIRW’s services are available, free of charge, to anyone whose human rights have been violated because of the conflict, regardless of religious, political or community affiliations. BIRW take no position on the eventual constitutional outcome of the conflict. Our charitable ojects include the abolition of torture, extrajudicial execution, arbitrary arrest, detention and exile. 1.2 BIRW are responding to the invitation made by Sir William Gage to make submissions to the Baha Mousa Inquiry, which was instigated, as the Secretary of State for Defence has acknowledged1 not just because a man died in the custody of British soldiers but because an investigation by the Royal Military Police and a subsequent Court Martial highlighted further important questions that needed to be answered. 1.3 We are making submissions to the Baha Mousa Inquiry on the basis of our extensive experience of monitoring the human rights situation in Northern Ireland. We believe that we are in a position to offer valuable insights regarding the circumstances leading to the death of Baha Mousa and the aftermath of this tragedy given our extensive understanding of the historically analogous lessons from the conflict in Northern Ireland. -
Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Fordham International Law Journal Volume 26, Issue 4 2002 Article 9 Dealing With the Past in Northern Ireland Christine Bell∗ ∗ Copyright c 2002 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is produced by The Berke- ley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj Dealing With the Past in Northern Ireland Christine Bell Abstract This Article “audits” Northern Ireland’s discrete mechanisms for dealing with the past, with a view to exploring the wider transitional justice debates. An assessment of what has been done so far is vital to considering what the goals of addressing the past might be, what future developments are useful or required, and what kind of mechanisms might successfully be employed in achieving those goals. DEALING WITH THE PAST IN NORTHERN IRELAND Christine Bell* INTRODUCTION The term "transitional justice" has increasingly been used to consider how governments in countries emerging from deeply rooted conflict address the legacy of past human rights viola- tions.' While the term has a pedigree dating back to the Nuremburg Tribunals, three contemporary factors have reinvig- orated interest.2 The first factor is the prevalence of negotiated agreements as the preferred way of resolving internal conflicts. Premised on some degree of compromise between those who were engaged militarily in the conflict, these compromises affect whether and how the past is dealt with. As Huyse notes, the wid- est scope for prosecutions arises in the case of an overthrow or "victory" where virtually no political limits on retributive punish- * Professor Bell is the Chair in Public International Law, Transitional Justice Insti- tute, School of Law, University of Ulster, and a former member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.