Blair urged to intervene in priest controversy

Tony Blair is facing demands to investigate claims a top policeman helped shield a Catholic priest accused of being behind one of the IRA’s worst atrocities.

Tony Blair is facing demands to investigate claims a top policeman helped shield a Catholic priest accused of being behind one of the IRA’s worst atrocities.

It is claimed Fr John Chesney, who is now dead, confessed to organising the bomb attack in Claudy near Derry in 1972.

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