Police to get ‘secret’ IRA interviews

Published on 08/07/2012 00:00

UNITED STATES: A court has thrown out efforts to prevent police from obtaining interviews given to a college oral history project by a convicted IRA car bomber.

The ruling by the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals means the interview with bomber Dolours Price will be given to police next month.

Belfast Project participants say the interviews were supposed to be kept secret until their deaths. But Northern Ireland police probing the IRA’s 1972 killing of Belfast woman Jean McConville, a mother of ten branded as a British Army spy by the IRA, want the recordings.

The university did not appeal against a district court order last year to turn over the Price interviews, though project director Ed Moloney and ex-IRA member Anthony McIntyre did.