Taoiseach encourages British government to acknowledge innocence of Ballymurphy victims

Undated Ballymurphy Massacre Committee handout file photos of (left to right top row) Joseph Corr, Danny Taggart, Eddie Doherty, Father Hugh Mullan, Frank Quinn, Paddy McCarthy, (left to right, bottom row) Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Philips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy, who were all gunshot victims of the Ballymurphy massacre in west Belfast in 1971. 

The Taoiseach has encouraged the British government to acknowledge the innocence of those killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast 1971.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised tonight "unreservedly on behalf of the UK government" over the "events that took place in Ballymurphy", and the "huge anguish" caused to the families of those who were killed, Downing Street has said.