Claudy bombing – Collusion claim is unsettling

The Claudy bombings of July 31, 1972, in which nine innocent people – five Catholics and four Protestants – were killed in Co Derry are now history, but they have an immediacy with the publication yesterday of the report of the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson.

The report confirmed that a Catholic priest, Fr Jim Chesney, was suspected of involvement.

Detectives investigating the bombings wished to question the priest, but they were undermined by their own superiors.