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Ballymurphy Massacre: Families receive 'significant damages' in court case against UK government

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed in the British Army shootings.

CIVIL CASES BROUGHT by the families of nine people killed at Ballymurphy in Belfast in 1971 against the UK’s Ministry of Defence have been settled.

At the High Court in Belfast Mr Justice Humphreys said that the settlement represented the “end of a very long process” for the families.

The amounts paid out in each case were not disclosed in court but the judge ordered the MoD to pay legal costs.

A statement from the families said they had secured “significant payment in damages” to the families of Fr Hugh Mullan, Frank Quinn, Joan Connolly, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Daniel Teggart, Edward Doherty, Joseph Corr and John Laverty.

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed the British Army shootings in an event that is known as the Ballymurphy Massacre

Last year, a fresh inquest concluded that 10 people had been killed by the British Army and that they were all innocent victims.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued an apology to the families in the House of Commons for the series of shootings over three days which came in the wake of the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.

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    Mute Malachi Shanks
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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:26 AM

    We’ll be doing the usual, disconnecting the door bell, turning all the lights off and hiding with a doped up shivering traumatised dog.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 7:03 PM

    @Malachi Shanks: a usual bank holiday for you then yeah?

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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:35 AM

    No. I am 55.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:28 AM

    Why do vampires use mouthwash,
    They have bat breath
    ….I’ll get my Cloak,,sorry jacket.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 11:47 AM

    Trick or treat? Whatever happened to “help the halloween party”?

    Yeah…I’m that old!

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    Mute mayo chicken
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    Oct 31st 2022, 11:30 AM

    No, we’re the childless one handing out sweets to the neighbourhood kids all evening.

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    Mute Paul Cunningham
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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:21 AM

    Not sure that the typical journal reader would be the type to trick or treat unless they have the kids. And if they are, run!

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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:28 AM

    What to some is ‘trick or treating’ to others is just a form of begging.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 9:51 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: what to many is a source of fun for children, is for some people a reason to be a curmudgeonly wet blanket.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:56 PM

    No the police told me not to do it again after last year

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    Oct 31st 2022, 4:10 PM

    I’m 58 so it would be a bit weird

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    Oct 31st 2022, 12:55 PM

    We’ve put the tiny needle into our doorbell.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 10:22 AM

    Trick…Pretend to pull a rope across the main road, it works every time. ;-)

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    Oct 31st 2022, 5:09 PM

    Youngsters calling at doorsteps should earn treats by singing or playing musical instruments to householders. Otherwise it’s begging.

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    Mute Jo H
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    Oct 31st 2022, 5:18 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: or just a little bit of harmless fun, you’re under no obligation to open the door if you don’t want to partake! I myself love having the kids call, the house is done up, I dress up, brings back happy childhood memories for me and gives a happy experience to other kids now

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    Oct 31st 2022, 6:36 PM

    @Jo H: people like you make Halloween, never change

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    Oct 31st 2022, 6:46 PM

    @Martin Harte: thanks Martin!

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    Oct 31st 2022, 9:54 PM

    @Garreth Byrne: actually it’s coercion by small children, not begging. They’re meant to trick you if you don’t provide the sweets by for example egging your house. Anyway it’s an ancient tradition and a bit of fun so stop being a crank.

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    Oct 31st 2022, 6:59 PM

    Boo humbug

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    Oct 31st 2022, 6:23 PM

    I wanted to respond to this survey but they didn’t offer a suitable category, which would have been “I am in me bo££ocks”!

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    Oct 31st 2022, 8:02 PM

    @Pat Kelly: oh is that the reason they call it ‘ the naked gun,’

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    Nov 1st 2022, 10:29 AM

    @Hans Vos: Didn’t know it was called that, Hans, but okay. I would have been thinking along the lines of “loose cannon” but there you go!

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