Difference between revisions of "Kincora Boys' Home"

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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28597343 Kincora abuse investigation stopped by MI5 says ex-army officer], BBC News, 1 August 2014.
 
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-28597343 Kincora abuse investigation stopped by MI5 says ex-army officer], BBC News, 1 August 2014.
 
*Scott D'Arcy, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-campaigners-call-for-official-secrets-act-suspension-to-allow-former-intelligence-officers-to-give-evidence-30477730.html Kincora: campaigners call for Official Secrets Act suspension to allow former intelligence officers to give evidence], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 2 August 2014.
 
*Scott D'Arcy, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-campaigners-call-for-official-secrets-act-suspension-to-allow-former-intelligence-officers-to-give-evidence-30477730.html Kincora: campaigners call for Official Secrets Act suspension to allow former intelligence officers to give evidence], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 2 August 2014.
*James Hanning, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-scandal-whistleblower-claims-mi5-tried-to-blackmail-red-hand-commando-homosexual-john-mckeague-30480155.html Kincora: campaigners call for Official Secrets Act suspension to allow former intelligence officers to give evidence], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 3 August 2014.
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*James Hanning, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-scandal-whistleblower-claims-mi5-tried-to-blackmail-red-hand-commando-homosexual-john-mckeague-30480155.html Kincora scandal: Whistleblower claims MI5 tried to blackmail Red Hand Commando 'homosexual' John McKeague], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 3 August 2014.
 
*Tom Griffin, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/spying/item/5674-kincora2pie From Kincora to PIE: Why the abuse inquiry needs access to intelligence documents], ''Spinwatch'', 6 August 2014.
 
*Tom Griffin, [http://www.spinwatch.org/index.php/issues/spying/item/5674-kincora2pie From Kincora to PIE: Why the abuse inquiry needs access to intelligence documents], ''Spinwatch'', 6 August 2014.
 
*Liam Clarke, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-how-three-men-alerted-mi5-officers-to-homes-dark-secret-and-still-nothing-was-done-to-stop-the-child-sex-abuse-30486053.html Kincora: How three men alerted MI5 officers to home's dark secret... and still nothing was done to stop the child sex abuse], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 6 August 2014.
 
*Liam Clarke, [http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/kincora-how-three-men-alerted-mi5-officers-to-homes-dark-secret-and-still-nothing-was-done-to-stop-the-child-sex-abuse-30486053.html Kincora: How three men alerted MI5 officers to home's dark secret... and still nothing was done to stop the child sex abuse], ''Belfast Telegraph'', 6 August 2014.

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Kincora Boys' Home, an orphanage in East Belfast, was at the centre of a child abuse scandal in the early 1980s. The scandal had political implications, because of the involvement of the notorious abuser, William McGrath, with unionist politicians, loyalist paramilitaries and MI5.[1]

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Notes

  1. Sam McBride, Kincora file conspicously absent from government records, Belfast Newsletter, 30 December 2012.