The full truth of Martin McGuinness’ actions on Bloody Sunday will probably never be admitted by the IRA movement.

When I wrote “The Volunteer – A Former IRA Man’s True Story” for HarperCollins back in 1991 – not published until 1993 – it was the first book to have an entire chapter dedicated to ‘Bloody Sunday’.

Even back then, I began the narrative of Bloody Sunday with the previous Thursday’s events:

In full knowledge of the imminent civil rights’ march seventy-two hours later on these same streets, the Derry Brigade of the IRA set an ambush on Creggan Hill and Helen Street just below Rosemount police barracks – using the adjacent cover of the so-called ‘no go area’ – and when a police car appeared it was riddled by gunfire which included a Thompson submachine gun.

Two members of the RUC were murdered – Sergeant Peter Gilgunn (26), a Catholic, and Constable David Montgomery (20), a Protestant, and a third was seriously injured.

It is almost certain that Martin McGuinness was one of the shooters – he was sporting the same Thompson machine gun three days later on the afternoon that was to become known as Bloody Sunday.

If this was not a blatant IRA attempt to militarise the imminent civil rights’ march, nothing was.

Martin McGuinness playing with his Luger in the Brandywell

A number of IRA volunteers – who thought they were ‘off duty’ on the day and had just gone on the march along with friends – happened upon McGuinness and another IRA volunteer, McFadden, as they were breaking into a building in High Street to get access to the upper floors of Duffy’s Bookies [betting shop] fronting onto William Street and overlooking British soldiers below.

Duffy’s Bookies in William Street – the upper floors overlooked British soldiers on Bloody Sunday

What they noticed about McGuinness on the afternoon was that he was holding a Thompson sub-machine gun [the same gun that had been used three days previously to murder two RUC men on nearby Creggan Hill] and that his IRA comrade friend – a son of Barney McFadden – was carrying a large explosive charge.

A number of these IRA volunteers who happened upon McGuinness and McFadden were friends of mine and recounted their memories years later and before that knowledge ever became controversial.

Martin McGuinness’ preferred weapon on Bloody Sunday

Most of these old friends of mine are dead now – most notably Sean McCallion – but not all of them.

It says a lot about the IRA movement in 2023 that one of these witnesses – a well known former IRA prisoner – is still afraid to be quoted even on this matter for fear of repercussions on his relatives living in Derry.

For all that McGuinness was honoured in death by the Roman Catholic church – given funeral honours equivalent to a Head of State (Head of the IRA Army Council more like) – the “dogs on the street” [these dogs are more active than Radio Foyle newsroom journos] knew that McGuinness broke the IRA’s word to the Civil Rights leaders that it – the IRA – would not be “active” during the period of the Civil Rights march that became Bloody Sunday.

He went on to blatantly “lie on oath” to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry about all matters relating to the IRA, even claiming that he had left the IRA in 1974…

McGuinness’ gravestone admission of continuing membership of the IRA/Óglaigh na hÉireann even unto death

The man who was guaranteeing the ‘No IRA Actions On The Day’ promise to Civil Rights leaders was the Derry Brigade O.C. – and this individual was not Martin McGuinness.

This individual was Robbie Griffin.

Robbie was a background type of guy who was well known in the community but who shunned publicity of any kind and still does.

Following events on Bloody Sunday, IRA Derry Brigade O.C. Robbie had a series of arguments with McGuinness about McGuinness’ breach of IRA Army Orders on the day – and Robbie shortly after resigned as O.C. of the Derry Brigade so angry was he about McGuinness’ behaviour on this occasion (and later on the occasion of the IRA Press Conference in the Brandywell to which the O.C. was not invited).

In fact – as the all-knowing Derry/Londonderry dogs knew – not only did McGuinness move weapons on Bloody Sunday, he also had a number of nail bombs issued to young teenagers that they might use during or after the latter part of the march.

A typical IRA nail bomb

The teenagers in question were mostly members of the Junior IRA – which was known as ‘the Fianna’.

The Fianna at this time were held to be too young to be fully-fledged IRA Volunteers – but in practice they were doing everything that IRA Volunteers were doing as sometime Fianna leader Gerry O’Hara – another old friend of mine from Thundering Down – later admitted.

War Criminals – Fianna Commander Gerry O’Hara [on left] with IRA Commander Martin McGuinness, in Armani Uniforms

Gerry O’Hara – later elevated to Sinn Féin Mayor of Derry – was big into the Irish language and changed his name to Gearóid Ó hEára.

It is an international War Crime to involve youngsters in front line military operations, but nobody has ever been interested in the IRA movement’s involvement of kids in front line military/paramilitary operations.

Come All You Young Rebels…’

Many young teenagers wanted to be associated with the Fianna – it offered immature teenagers of 14/15/16/17 years of age a sense of purpose and importance in a world controlled by adults.

They got to see and be near IRA leaders sporting machine guns and rifles – to immature teenagers it was all very exciting.

On Bloody Sunday, while fewer than a dozen nail bombs were issued, there were way more young Fianna around the Bogside (and from the Creggan) than there were nail bombs.

Not every Fian was going to get a nail bomb – fewer than half a dozen did.

What matters is that everybody agrees on all sides that No Nail Bombs Were Ever Exploded on the day that became Bloody Sunday – they were evidently issued to the teenagers and they were later recalled back to an IRA dump behind the Bogside Inn by Martin McGuinness.

Though they were never used, they are at the heart of Gerald Donaghey’s story.

Gerald Donaghey (17) – Shot in the Abdomen

Young Gerald Donaghey was a Fian – a member of the IRA’s Fianna na hÉireann – the junior IRA.

Big Deal – so were many of the young kids roaming around the Bogside, Creggan and Brandywell – it would have been hard for many of these kids to avoid the peer pressure and peer attactiveness of joining the Fianna for a time.

When I was 15 years young in 1970, my then friend Paul O’Connor asked me to join the Provisional IRA along with him and we were “sworn in” the following evening as IRA Volunteers, not even as more junior Fianna.

Paul O’Connor, IRA gunman, bomber and skilled liar

A lot of thought went into that decision! [not]

When British Army paratroopers opened fire into the Civil Rights marchers in the William Street/Rossville Street/Glenfada Park/Abbey Park area, one high velocity rifle bullet hit young Gerald Donaghey in the abdomen, spilling his intestines out of his stomach and causing a severe bleed.

During the shooting minutes earlier, a number of civilians had taken refuge in the home of Raymond Rogan at 10 Abbey Park.

Rogan had been born in England in the Lake District – his father was English and his mother was from Derry.

He was only 4 years old when both of his parents died suddenly – as the youngest of 11 children, he and his younger siblings were brought over to Derry to his granny’s house to be raised in Thomas Street.

Rogan’s older siblings stayed in England and one of his brothers became a submariner in the Royal Navy, while another joined the Merchant Navy.

Rogan had married a local girl and had worked in Molins Engineering in Campsie, but had been active in community matters and was later elected to head a local Tenants’ Association and later again elected as Chair of the Bogside Community Association.

Raymond Rogan

Later again, at the insistence of Fr. Edward Daly [later Bishop Edward Daly, scourge of the local IRA], Rogan took up a paid post as United Nations representative in Northern Ireland, trusted by both communities.

He was not an IRA type by any means.

Let’s let Rogan tell it in his own words:

“Looking out the window you could see somebody had been shot.

I went out and a couple of people helped me lay him in here.

He was just like a wain. He was just 17 and he looked even younger.

We laid him down here.

We searched him, we couldn’t find anything – the wife found a necklace, a cross round his neck.

We wanted to identify him, notify his people.

There was a doctor down at Peter Carr’s house on the corner there and he came up examined him and said, ‘He has a chance if he can be got to hospital’, and I said right get him into my car.

The fellow that helped back me out of the yard sat in the back seat and young Donaghey was laid across his knees.

We headed straight for the hospital.

There wasn’t a flyover then and we were stopped by the army just past the Long Tower chapel near the top of Abercorn Road and my handbrake wasn’t great and I said to them ‘the car will run back if I get out’, and they pulled you out and we had to put our hands behind our heads and stand against the wall.

I remember distinctly one soldier saying to me, ‘don’t move, one is not enough for me’. I didn’t know what he meant but it was clear he was gonna shoot me if I didn’t do what he told me.

I kept protesting about the young fellow; we were trying to get him to hospital and he would die if we didn’t, and I kept looking over and the car was still there after about 20 to 30 minutes before they moved the car.

And they didn’t take him to hospital, they took him to the camp on Foyle Road and me and this other fellow who was along with me were arrested.

[While being detained, Raymond heard a bang close by and two police figures who knew him came in and told him he was being released.]

And I said, ‘what about my car?’ And one said, ‘that bang you heard that was your car, the boot of your car being blown open, there were nail bombs in that young fellow’s pocket’.

I said, ‘What?’

It was a goddamn lie. He had tight jeans on him, there was no way he had bombs in his pockets.

And would I have brought him into my family house with nail bombs in his pocket?

We had searched him to try and find any identity. Nothing.

He was the only one the army and police said had weapons of any description of those that were shot.

There is no way that young fellow had nail bombs in his pocket.

You can see from the photographs they were squeezed in and were sticking out.

There is no way you could have missed it.”

https://www.derryjournal.com/news/people/an-extraordinary-life-derryman-raymond-rogan-3270299

Let’s be clear – when Gerald Donaghey was lifted up in the street and carried into Raymond Rogan’s home and laid on the sofa, his skin-tight jeans were opened at the waist to examine the deadly wound in his abdomen where his intestines were protruding from his stomach.

Gerald Donaghey, 17 year old Bloody Sunday Patsy

Nobody who carried him into Rogan’s home noticed ANYTHING in his tight pockets.

Not alone the doctor and a nurse and Rogan and Rogan’s wife examined him, but a posse of local people [certainly including some IRA and Fianna witnesses on the street] watched the episode from close range – nobody noticed FOUR pointy nail bombs in his tight jeans’ pockets…

A lot of people sympathetic to the IRA had ample opportunity to remove anything that MIGHT have been on his person during the period when citizens, a doctor and a nurse were examing his wound.

Even the first British soldier to get into Rogan’s car to drive Donaghey off to an army medical post noticed NOTHING in his pockets.

Even the Army Medical Officer who first examined Donaghey and expressed the view that he was already dead noticed NOTHING in his pockets.

But shortly afterwards – HEY PRESTO – not ONE, not TWO, not THREE, but FOUR NAIL BOMBS appeared stuffed with extreme difficulty into the pockets of his tight jeans and tight jeans’ jacket – so tightly packed into the pockets that later one could not be removed without being CUT OUT of the pocket!

Abracadabra!

So while the entire Derry Brigade of the IRA went on a spree of pressuring people to lie, asking to meet prospective witnesses of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and making a series of extraordinary omissions all to the benefit of Martin McGuinness – who needed to be whitewashed to further his political career – neither Sinn Féin nor the IRA put much effort into clearing the name of Gerald Donaghey.

https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/bsi-0004.pdf

And so, to this day Gerald Donaghey has been recorded as having had FOUR NAIL BOMBS on his person when he was shot while IRA Derry Brigade Adjutant Martin McGuinness has effectively been whitewashed by a torrent of lies and a huge Derry Brigade IRA cover-up of his activities on Bloody Sunday.

In all the secret IRA negotiations to bring about the release of IRA prisoners, a secret Amnesty for IRA volunteers on the run [the OTR letters], and the secretive deal to wind down and kill off the Bloody Sunday protests, nobody in the IRA leadership bothered to make any admissions about past IRA activities – and nobody bothered to press for Gerald Donaghey’s name to be entirely cleared.

Gerry Adams had expressed to British authorities a desire for all these matters to be dealt with in secret – as Mark Durkan recalled.

The People of Derry V The Parachute Regiment V Derry Brigade IRA

The British Army’s Parachute Regiment is reviled in Derry for having shot on “Bloody Sunday” 12 unarmed civilians and 1 IRA Volunteer (Gerard Donaghy).

In fact, so great is the disgust for the Paras that recently SDLP leader and Westminster MP Colum Eastwood named one of the Para soldiers under cover of parliamentary privilege – (Eastwood has never found the courage to name a single IRA or INLA murderer of Derry civilians).

Colum Eastwood attends paramilitary INLA funeral in Derry

What if the Paras had murdered 51 unarmed Derry civilians, young children, young mothers, teenagers, elderly women and men?

Would the same Derry people hate the Paras EVEN MORE?

No, not at all.

Murdering 51 unarmed Derry civilians is not really the issue – the issue is WHO murders them.

Derry people can love, commemorate and celebrate a Brigade that murdered at least 51 civilians – the Derry Brigade of the IRA.

Just in the city area, and including Claudy (less than 10 miles from the city centre) and counting the IRA’s bombs in Coleraine, the Derry Brigade of the IRA murdered 4 times as many unarmed civilians as the Paras did.

The IRA’s murdered civilians included young children, the elderly, young mothers, women and men.

And Derry people LOVE the IRA and its former Chief of Staff – mass murderer Martin McGuinness.

Mass murderer IRA “Chieftain” Martin McGuinness

So, the next time you hear Derry people condemning the Paras, remember that the Derry Brigade of the IRA murdered at least 4 times as many unarmed Derry civilians.

Derry people have begun calling the dead Martin McGuinness “Chieftain” – the only qualification for being called an IRA “Chieftain” in Derry is the mass murder of Derry civilians of all ages – and then denying it…

Catholic Archbishop & Derryman Eamon Martin poses contentedly with lying IRA mass murderer “Chieftain” Martin McGuinness

Catholic and Protestant churchmen are available to normalize the mass murderers to win the favour of the misguided local people.

A lying IRA mass murderer “at peace with his conscience” would do it all again…

Welcome to Derry Folk!

Catholic Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry has a good old laugh with IRA “Chieftain” mass murderer McGuinness – (don’t mention McGuinness’ Claudy Bombings’ atrocity)

The following list of unarmed civilians murdered by the Derry Brigade IRA would be even longer if it included ex-members of the UDR who were nevertheless still murdered by the Derry Brigade of the IRA.

Unarmed Derry Civilians Murdered by the Derry Brigade IRA

26 June 1970

McCool, Bernadette (9) Catholic child.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Died in premature explosion of incendiary device at her home, Dunree Gardens, Creggan, Derry.

26 June 1970

McCool, Carol Ann (4) Catholic child.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Died in premature explosion of incendiary device at her home, Dunree Gardens, Creggan, Derry.

28 March 1972

Forsythe, Joseph (57) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in van bomb explosion outside Limavady Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base, County Derry. Driving past at the time of the attack.

28 March 1972

McMichael, Robert (27) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in van bomb explosion outside Limavady Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) base, County Derry. Driving past at the time of the attack.

31 July 1972

Eakin, Kathryn (8) Protestant child.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

McClelland, James (65) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside Beaufort Hotel, Church Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

Miller, David (60) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside Beaufort Hotel, Church Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

McElhinney, Elizabeth (59) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

McCloskey, Joseph (38) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

Temple, William (16) Protestant teenager.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed when car bomb exploded outside Beaufort Hotel, Church Street, Claudy, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

McLaughlin, Rose (52) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Injured when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. She died 3 August 1972. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

Connolly, Joseph (15) Catholic teenager.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Injured when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. He died 8 August 1972. Inadequate warning given.

31 July 1972

Hone, Arthur (38) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Injured when car bomb exploded outside McElhinney’s Bar, Main Street, Claudy, County Derry. He died 12 August 1972. Inadequate warning given.

25 February 1973

Gallagher, Gordon (9) Catholic child.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb in back garden of his home, Leenan Gardens, Creggan, Derry.

12 June 1973

Campbell, Francis (70) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

12 June 1973

Campbell, Dinah (72) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

12 June 1973

Craigmile, Elizabeth (76) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

12 June 1973

Davis, Nan (60) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

12 June 1973

Scott, Robert (72) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

12 June 1973

Palmer, Elizabeth (60) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in car bomb explosion, Railway Road, Coleraine, County Derry. Inadequate warning given.

24 August 1973

Duffy, Patrick (37) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Found shot in abandoned car, Buncrana Road, Derry. Alleged informer.

22 September 1973

Brown, James (26) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Found shot, Foyle Road, Derry. Alleged informer.

14 November 1973

Feeney, Kathleen (14) Catholic teenager.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot during sniper attack on British Army (BA) mobile patrol, Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry.

31 May 1974

Shotter, Alfred (54) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb hidden in dustbin at his former home, Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry.

05 October 1974

Chopra, Asha (25) nfNI

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot while driving her car, during sniper attack on Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) foot patrol diverting traffic, Greenhaw Road, Shantallow, Derry.

11 August 1976

Quigley, Michael (33) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot during Irish Republican Army (IRA) sniper attack on British Army (BA) observation post, while walking along Meenan Square, Bogside, Derry.

23 November 1976

Glover, Joseph (60) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Businessman. Shot at his workplace, Crawford Square, Derry.

27 November 1976

McConnellogue, Frank (46) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb in entry, off Lecky Road, Bogside, Derry.

02 February 1977

Agate, Jeffrey (59) nfNI

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Originally from England. Manager of Du Pont factory. Shot outside his home, Talbot Park, Derry.

28 September 1978

Russell, Brian (30) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Civilian searcher. Shot during sniper attack on British Army (BA) patrol, Waterloo Place, Derry.

14 May 1980

Hamilton, Roy (22) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot at his workplace, a building site, Ballymagroarty, Derry.

07 April 1981

Mathers, Joanne (29) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot while collecting census forms, Anderson Crescent, Gobnascale, Derry.

03 June 1981

Lynn, Joseph (60) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot during sniper attack on British Army (BA) foot patrol, Central Drive, Creggan, Derry.

16 July 1982

Carey, Colm (28) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Died from loss of blood, shortly after being shot in the knee at his home, Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry. Alleged “criminal”.

10 May 1983

Purvis, Alice (47) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot during gun attack on her husband, an off duty British Army (BA) member, at her mother’s home, Strabane Old Road, Gobnascale, Derry.

24 August 1983

Young, William (52) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot at his shop, Magazine Street, Derry. Altercation with Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit.

23 February 1985

Coyle, Kevin (24) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Found shot Corporation Street, Bogside, Derry. Alleged informer.

21 November 1985

Konig, Kurt (38) nfNI

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

German businessman. Shot outside his home, Gleneagle’s, Shantallow, Derry. Contractor to British Army (BA) / Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).

28 August 1986

Bell, Mervyn (22) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot while sitting in stationary car outside his father’s workplace, council depot, Strand Road, Derry. Contractor to British Army (BA).

12 September 1986

Robinson, Kenneth (30) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb, attached to his Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) member father’s car outside their home, Clonmakane Court, Caw, Derry.

23 March 1987

Jarvis, Leslie (62) Protestant

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Civilian employed at Magilligan Prison. Shot in car park outside Magee College of Further Education, Rock Road, Derry.

16 December 1987

Doherty, Gerard (68) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in bomb explosion outside his home, Milltown View, Tullyally, Derry.

31 August 1988

Dalton, Sean (55) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb in neighbour’s home, Kildrum Gardens, Creggan, Derry.

31 August 1988

Lewis, Sheila (60) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by booby trap bomb in neighbour’s home, Kildrum Gardens, Creggan, Derry.

31 August 1988

Curran, Gerard (57) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Injured by booby trap bomb in neighbour’s home, Kildrum Gardens, Creggan, Derry. He died 31 March 1989.

28 January 1990

Love, Charles (16) Catholic teenager.

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed by remote controlled bomb hidden in city walls, aimed at British Army (BA) / Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) observation patrol, while watching the nearby Bloody Sunday commemoration parade, Westland Street, Derry. He was hit by flying debris.

24 October 1990

Gillespie, Patrick (42) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Killed in van bomb attack on permanent British Army (BA) Vehicle Check Point (VCP), Buncrana Road, Coshquinn, near Derry. A civilian employed by British Army (BA, he was forced to drive the van bomb to the Vehicle Check Point (VCP).

06 June 1991

Finnis, Ruairi (21) Catholic

Status: Irish Republican Army (IRA), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA) Found shot behind row of shops, Central Drive, Creggan, Derry. Alleged informer.

21 November 1992

Holmes, Gerard (35) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Found shot, in entry off Rinmore Drive, Creggan, Derry. Alleged informer.

13 December 1992

Collett, John (36) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Died five days after being shot in the legs, at his home, Drumleck Gardens, Shantallow, Derry. Alleged criminal.

21 April 2001

O’Kane, Christopher (37) Catholic

Status: Civilian (Civ), Killed by: Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Shot near to his home, Milldale Crescent, Tullyally, Derry.