Everyone knows where
they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994
World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the
match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, Co. Down was no exception. But
two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ireland’s
footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after
half-time they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying
bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent men lay dead
or dying.
In 2017 journalists
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey produced a groundbreaking
documentary, No
Stone Unturned, about Loughinisland and allegations of
collusion between the RUC and the loyalist terrorists behind the attack.
However, it was Birney and McCaffrey, not the perpetrators of violence who
then found themselves the target of PSNI anger.
Shooting
Crows tells a shocking story of
collusion and betrayal, and of a State still willing to corrupt justice and
persecute the innocent to hide the sins of its past.
Paperback • €19.99 • 336 pages • 226 mm x 153
mm • 9781785375255
Trevor
Birney is an Emmy-nominated
film producer, director and journalist. In 2017 he produced the
ground-breaking documentary No
Stone Unturned, about the 1994 murder by UVF gunmen of six
Catholics in Loughinisland, County Down. Birney’s work resulted in their
wrongful arrests by the PSNI, who later paid the producers significant
damages. His book Quinn (Merrion
Press, 2022) was a bestseller and longlisted for Eason Book of the Year
2022. He produced the 2024 film Kneecap,
which won the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.
Everyone knows where
they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994
World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the
match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, Co. Down was no exception. But
two miles down the road, three men with no interest in Ireland’s
footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after
half-time they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying
bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent men lay dead
or dying.
In 2017 journalists
Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey produced a groundbreaking
documentary, No
Stone Unturned, about Loughinisland and allegations of
collusion between the RUC and the loyalist terrorists behind the attack.
However, it was Birney and McCaffrey, not the perpetrators of violence who
then found themselves the target of PSNI anger.
Shooting
Crows tells a shocking story of
collusion and betrayal, and of a State still willing to corrupt justice and
persecute the innocent to hide the sins of its past.
Paperback • €19.99 • 336 pages • 226 mm x 153
mm • 9781785375255
Trevor
Birney is an Emmy-nominated
film producer, director and journalist. In 2017 he produced the
ground-breaking documentary No
Stone Unturned, about the 1994 murder by UVF gunmen of six
Catholics in Loughinisland, County Down. Birney’s work resulted in their
wrongful arrests by the PSNI, who later paid the producers significant
damages. His book Quinn (Merrion
Press, 2022) was a bestseller and longlisted for Eason Book of the Year
2022. He produced the 2024 film Kneecap,
which won the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
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