26th Jan- (Panel Discussion) Coverup

Venue: Pilot’s Row Community Centre

This panel discussion will compare and contrast the dynamics of four high-level coverups on these islands: Bloody Sunday, the miners strike , the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, and the Catholic church’s coverup of priests guilty of serial child sex abuse in the republic.

The speakers are: Kate Nash whose brother William was shot dead on Bloody Sunday. Her father Alex was also wounded attempting to come to the aid of his son. Dave Douglass a coal miner who worked the coal fields of Durham and South Yorkshire and became NUM Branch Delegate for Hatfield Colliery from 1979. He was present at the picket line that would become know as ‘The Battle Of Orgreave’. Jenny Hicks who has been prominent in the campaign for truth and justice for the 96 who died in Hillsborough. Jenny lost her two daughters in the disaster. Sarah was 19 and Victoria was 15. And Susan McKay journalist and writer whose books include: ‘Sophia’s Story’ (1998) the biography of child abuse survivor Sophia McColgan, ‘Northern Protestants – An Unsettled People’ (2000) and ‘Bear In Mind These Dead’ (2009). She was a founder member of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre and has written extensively about clerical child abuse and violence against women and children. The event will be chaired by the human rights activist Bernadette McAliskey.

All welcome!