Labour’s Loughgall Betrayal: Letting the IRA Rewrite History

 

 

Labour is under fire for reopening investigations into the 1987 Loughgall gun battle — a move veterans say turns IRA killers into martyrs while dragging SAS heroes through the mud nearly four decades later.

 

The attack on Loughgall police station was one of the bloodiest in The Troubles. IRA bomb-maker Jim “The Executioner” Lynagh and Padraig McKearney led eight gunmen in a plan to slaughter police officers with a 400lb digger bomb. Instead, all eight terrorists were killed after SAS soldiers intervened in a life-or-death firefight that saved countless lives.

 

Now, Labour’s Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has confirmed plans to reopen inquests into the deaths — overturning the Conservatives’ Legacy Act, which had ended such legal witch hunts. The move has infuriated veterans who say the government is “handing victory to the IRA in court what they lost in combat.”

 

The men of the SAS have already faced investigations, cleared of wrongdoing, and even praised for stopping an atrocity. Yet Labour’s “legacy framework” will funnel millions into new taxpayer-funded inquests that apply modern human rights law to split-second firefights from the 1980s. The policy even gives Dublin a say in British military matters — a move veterans call “betrayal by stealth.”

 

“It’s an outrage,” said one former SAS soldier involved in the operation. “We saved lives that night. Now they want to brand us as criminals to appease the IRA’s propaganda machine.”

 

Critics say the government’s stance proves the balance of sympathy has flipped — with the state apologising to gunmen rather than honouring those who stopped them. As Benn reopens cases like Loughgall, Coagh and Clonoe, where terrorists were killed mid-attack, anger is boiling over within the armed forces community.

 

Veterans’ groups have branded the policy a “Labour surrender to revisionism”, accusing ministers of letting history be rewritten in courtrooms rather than classrooms. “Labour is paying lawyers to turn murderers into martyrs,” one campaigner said. “The IRA fired first. The SAS fired back. That should have been the end of it.”

 

Key Takeaways:

• Labour reopens Loughgall inquest, reigniting anger over “SAS witch hunt.”

• Veterans say the move rewards IRA revisionism while punishing heroes.

• New “Legacy Framework” could see Dublin influence British military cases.

 

Source: Daily Mail

 

 

 

Scum Labour government, friends of terrorists. 

 

Blair handed out letters of comfort to IRS terrorists in 2014 basically giving them immunity for their crimes. 2 Tier Kier's government are hounding and dragging former British soldiers 40 years later. Where's the justice? 

Kier Starmer... what a pathetic weak oxygen thief..