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*'''20''' - At 3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon, as Ireland were playing the All-Blacks Rugby team at Lansdowne Road, a car parked in Sackville Place, Dublin exploded, killing 21-year-old Tommy Douglas, a native of Stirling, Scotland.<ref>[http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/index2.html DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973], Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.</ref> | *'''20''' - At 3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon, as Ireland were playing the All-Blacks Rugby team at Lansdowne Road, a car parked in Sackville Place, Dublin exploded, killing 21-year-old Tommy Douglas, a native of Stirling, Scotland.<ref>[http://www.dublinmonaghanbombings.org/index2.html DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973], Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.</ref> | ||
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| + | *'''March undated''' - [[Brian Nelson]] and two other men abduct a partially-sighted man, [[Gerald Higgins]], and take him to a [[UDA]] club where he is beaten, set on fire and electrocuted. Higgins is only saved when an Army patrol intervened as he is apparently being led to his execution.<ref name="DeSilvavol1Ch6">Sir Desmond de Silva, [http://www.patfinucanereview.org/report/volume01/chapter006/ Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson], Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.</ref> | ||
==September== | ==September== | ||
Revision as of 22:39, 14 December 2012
Events related to state violence and collusion in Northern Ireland in 1973.
Contents
January
- 20 - At 3.20 pm on a Saturday afternoon, as Ireland were playing the All-Blacks Rugby team at Lansdowne Road, a car parked in Sackville Place, Dublin exploded, killing 21-year-old Tommy Douglas, a native of Stirling, Scotland.[1]
March
- March undated - Brian Nelson and two other men abduct a partially-sighted man, Gerald Higgins, and take him to a UDA club where he is beaten, set on fire and electrocuted. Higgins is only saved when an Army patrol intervened as he is apparently being led to his execution.[2]
September
- 16 - UDA figure Tommy Herron shot dead under mysterious circumstances.[3]
Notes
- ↑ DUBLIN BOMBING OF 20th JANUARY 1973, Justice for the Forgotten, accessed 19 June 2012.
- ↑ Sir Desmond de Silva, Volume 1 - Chapter 6: The recruitment of Brian Nelson, Pat Finucane Review, 12 December 2012.
- ↑ David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeney, Chris Thornton and David McVea, Lost Lives, Mainstream Publishing, 2004, p.391.
