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The Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as the Saville inquiry, was established in 1998 by Prime Minister Tony Blair after campaigns by families of those killed and injured in Derry on Bloody Sunday for a second inquiry. The inquiry was set up to establish a definitive version of the events of Sunday 30 January 1972, superseding the Tribunal set up under Lord Widgery that had reported on 19 April 1972, 11 weeks after the events, and to resolve the accusations of a whitewash that had surrounded it. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
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For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament...
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The Bogside area viewed from the city walls Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) is the term used to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment led by...
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Although the judges retired on 23 November 2004,[1] they reconvened once again on 16 December to listen to testimony from another key witness, known as Witness X.[2] November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
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2000 The Bloody Sunday Inquiry opened proper in 2000 when formal public hearings began at the Guildhall in Derry. The Inquiry held public hearings on 116 days over the year, clocking up more than 600 hours of evidence. The vast majority of the evidence was from eyewitnesses. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In August, the inquiry ordered the soldiers who had opened fire to return to Derry to give their evidence. However, in December the Court of Appeal overruled the inquiry and accepted that the former soldiers would be in danger from dissident republicans should they return to Northern Ireland. Lord Saville later said that he would not move the hearings from Derry and that the soldiers' evidence would be relayed by video link. Court of Appeals is the title of certain appellate courts in various jurisdictions. ...
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2001 Yet again, the role of republicans and the IRA came to the fore when the inquiry heard that there may be a "wall of silence" in Derry over what exactly members of the IRA were doing on the day. The allegations persisted when a witness in February 2001 refused to name a man he said had fired at soldiers. After months of speculation, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness announced that he would give evidence to the inquiry. A Republican mural in Belfast depicting the hunger strikes of 1981. ...
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2004 Judges retired on 23 November 2004,[3] they reconvened once again on 16 December to listen to testimony from another key witness, known as Witness X.[4] November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
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2006 Costs are thought to have reached £400 million, adding to the continued controversy surrounding the inquiry.
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Controversy The Bloody Sunday Inquiry has been extremely controversial because of its prolonged nature, its cost to the taxpayer and more importantly questions over its necessity. The questions of time and cost (the inquiry remaining unconcluded after 8 years and at a cost estimated at £150 million when it first retired in 2004) are secondary to the question of whether there was a need for another inquiry in the first place. In 1992, John Major, writing to John Hume stated:[5] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| “ | The Government made clear in 1974 that those who were killed on 'Bloody Sunday' should be regarded as innocent of any allegation that they were shot whilst handling firearms or explosives. I hope that the families of those who died will accept that assurance. | ” | There has also been a general disquiet about the use of public inquiries by Tony Blair; a leader in The Spectator on 14 June 2003 exemplifies this controversy:[6] For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament...
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| “ | During his six years in office, the Prime Minister has perfected the use of the public inquiry as a political tool. When it comes to dubious events which have occurred during his own premiership, an inquiry is something to be strongly resisted as a waste of valuable time and money. When it comes to scandals which have occurred under previous administrations, on the other hand, no effort is to be spared in the quest for truth. | ” | Those like Peter Oborne have labelled the inquiry a "shambles", estimating its final cost at "more than £200 million".[7] He has suggested that while "Most people... accept that in Northern Ireland the only way forward is by casting a veil of obscurity over the past": however the Saville inquiry marks the "one exception to this rule: the British army"; whose "conduct... is being put under a microscope by the Saville public inquiry".[8] Peter Oborne is a journalist, commentator, and author, and political editor of The Spectator newspaper. ...
The inquiry caused further controversy when on 4 July 2006 the Government revealed its cost to the taxpayer in an attempt "to block an official inquiry into the July 7 London bombings". "Tessa Jowell, let slip on BBC TV's Sunday AM programme that "the latest estimate. . . is about £400 million"": an amount labelled by "Downing Street and ministers" as an ""awful" cost": [9] For the United States holiday, the Fourth of July, see Independence Day (United States). ...
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| “ | In response to questions about the Bloody Sunday inquiry, Government officials were unable to explain why the cost was more than double the estimates given publicly. Miss Jowell's aides confirmed that she had repeated a figure given to her by John Reid, the Home Secretary, who when he was the Northern Ireland secretary had challenged the hefty fees being charged by lawyers at the inquiry. Mr Blair's official spokesman later agreed that costs had run out of control, saying that the inquiry had taken a "long time and cost an awful lot of money". It heard from more than 900 witnesses before it ended last November and Lord Saville retired to write his report. John Reid may refer to: John Reid (UK politician) (born 1947), British politician, cabinet minister and current Home Secretary. ...
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David Lidington, the Tories' Northern Ireland spokesman, said the costs were "scandalous". He would be asking in Parliament why there had been such a dramatic increase. Tory figures say the inquiry has cost everyone in the country £6.64; the total of £400 million would have paid for more than 15,000 nurses, nearly 5,000 doctors and 11,000 policemen, or 13 extra Apache helicopters for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. David Roy Lidington (born June 30, 1956) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom, and has been Member of Parliament for Aylesbury since 1992. ...
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Notes - ^ "Saville inquiry judges retire" BBC News, 23 November, 2004
- ^ "Surprise return for inquiry" BBC News, 16 December, 2004
- ^ "Saville inquiry judges retire" BBC News, 23 November, 2004
- ^ "Surprise return for inquiry" BBC News, 16 December, 2004
- ^ Don Mullan (1997). Eyewitness Bloody Sunday. Wolfhound: Printing Press. ISBN 0-86327-586-9.
- ^ "Bloody ridiculous" The Spectator, 14 June, 2003
- ^ "The truth is he lied" by Peter Oborne, The Spectator, 10 January, 2004
- ^ "The politics of bloody murder" by Peter Oborne, The Spectator, 12 January, 2002
- ^ "Bloody Sunday: Full inquiry, cost £400m. July 7 bombs: No inquiry, 'too expensive'" by George Jones and Jonathan Petre, The Daily Telegraph, 5 July, 2006
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See also The Bogside area viewed from the city walls Bloody Sunday (Irish: Domhnach na Fola) is the term used to describe an incident in Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1972 in which 26 civil rights protesters were shot by members of 1st Battalion of the British Parachute Regiment led by...
When discussing the history of Northern Ireland, the peace process is generally considered to cover the events leading up to the 1994 IRA ceasefire, the end of most of the violence of The Troubles, the Belfast (or Good Friday) Agreement, and subsequent political developments. ...
External links - Bloody Sunday Inquiry website
- BBC News Bloody Sunday Inquiry Timeline
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