"It's an attack on the press, everybody should realise. It's us today, tomorrow it could be you..." Barry McCaffrey
As people were packed into a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland watching the Republic of Ireland play their biggest game in the World Cup of 1994, loyalist terrorists burst in, shooting eleven people in the back, six of whom subsequently died.
Yet no-one has ever been charged in relation to the massacre. Even the getaway car, found the following day, was destroyed as allegations of a cover up and British state collusion refused to go away...
"I'll never forget their words 'We'll leave no stone unturned'" says a grieving relative in the documentary with the ironic title "And those words ring in my ears to this day because I don't think they even lifted a stone never mind turned it..."
No Stone Unturned does lift the 'stones', including an interview with a cop investigating the case who was told who he could speak to, who he couldn't speak to, what they would be saying and what they wouldn't be saying... "There were things going on above my head" he tells the makers of the award winning documentary.
Incredibly (or not) no-one has ever been charged with the murders but at the end of August this year, the two journalists who made the documentary, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, were arrested in relation to material used in the film.
"It's an attack on the press, everybody should realise" said Barry McCaffrey speaking outside the police station "It's us today, tomorrow it could be you."
Now Barry is the guest speaker at a special free screening of No Stone Unturned at The Three Minute Theatre in Afflecks Arcade this Wednesday 31st October. It is being organised by the Salford and Manchester NUJ but everyone is welcome to attend this must-see documentary.
No Stone Unturned
Wednesday 31st October 6pm (for 6:30pm start) free
Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade, Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JG
To see a trailer for the documentary on YouTube click here
For further details of the journalists' arrest see the Irish Mirror article click here
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