Video interview with Rev. William McCrea, DUP MP for South Antrim, for ITN on 1 September 1988. On 20 August an IRA bomb at Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone killed eight and injured twenty-eight British Army soldiers. Ten days later, three members of the IRA were killed by an SAS unit near Drumnakilly in Co. Tyrone. Street violence followed in Belfast. At a DUP press conference on 1 September McCrea praises the overall work of the state security forces and calls on the people of Northern Ireland to repudiate paramilitary organisations.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 1 September 1988
Name of First Interviewee: Rev. William McCrea
Role at time of Interview: DUP MP for Mid Ulster
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
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Link: Watch the interview
Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1988
Key Individuals: Rev. William McCrea
Key Words: DUP, IRA, RUC, UDR, paramilitary