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Interview with Ronnie Flanagan and Kieron McPartland by Alex Thomson for ITN on 16 March 1999

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Video interviews with Ronnie Flanagan, Chief Constable of the RUC, and Fr. Kieron McPartland, Lurgan-based Catholic priest, by Alex Thomson for ITN on 16 March 1999. One day earlier Rosemary Nelson, the prominent Lurgan solicitor, was killed by a car bomb in Co. Armagh. A loyalist paramilitary group calling itself the Red Hand Defenders later claimed responsibility for the attack. Flanagan discusses the current investigation into the killing while McPartland describes Nelson’s family’s experience of her death.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 16 March 1999

Name of First Interviewee: Ronnie Flanagan

Name of Second Interviewee: Fr. Kieron McPartland

Role at time of Interview: Ronnie Flanagan (Chief Constable of the RUC), Fr. Kieron McPartland (Lurgan-based Catholic priest)

Interviewer: Alex Thomson

Purpose: News

Media: Audiovisual

Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved

Link: Watch the interview

Programme/Book/Article: ITN

Time Period covered: 1999

Key Individuals: Ronnie Flanagan, Fr. Kieron McPartland, Rosemary Nelson, David Phillips

Key Words: Rosemary Nelson killing, RUC, FBI, policing, collusion, Red Hand Defenders, loyalist paramilitary, IRA, decommissioning

 

 

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