Tribute to be paid to former Tipperary CIE employee killed in Dublin bombing

An evening dedicated to Fethard man George Bradshaw who was a  CIE employee that was killed in the first car bombs in the Republic will take place in Fethard on Friday.

There will be a screening  of a film called    Anatomy of a Massacre which is a feature length documentary for the 50th anniversary of the Dublin Monaghan bombings in which Maureen Shields from Tipperary died alongside 33 others.

Two years previous to the Dublin Monaghan bombings George Bradshaw was killed  and an investigation into his death was closed down after six weeks and within 18 months the Dublin Monaghan bombings took place.

 His daughter Lynn Cummins, who is a member of Justice For The Forgotten, and who lives in Fethard, is supporting the screening.

The film screens in the Abbey Mill Theatre, Fethard on Friday, September  27 at  730pm with special Q and A with survivors and the film makers.

Following on from the success of a documentary called  406 Days The Debenhams Picket Line which won three awards at last years Dublin International Film Festival and was in cinemas nationwide Fergus Dowd and Joe Lee have produced a feature length documentary for the 50th anniversary of the Dublin Monaghan bombings - May-17-74 Anatomy of a Massacre.

Following multiple sold out screenings in the Lighthouse Cinema and IFI Dublin, the Garage Theatre Monaghan, Nerve Centre Derry and Palas Galway, Wexford Arts Centre and QFT Belfast the film will be screened in Fethard.

GEORGE BRADSHAW

The evening is dedicated to George Bradshaw who hailed from Fethard and his daughter Lynn Cummins, a member of Justice For The Forgotten, who lives in the village, is supporting the screening. On the 17th May 1974 three no warning car bombs detonated in Dublin City Centre within three minutes of each other killing 27 people including an unborn baby, a French citizen and an Italian citizen and injuring 258 people.

Later that evening a no warning car bomb in Monaghan Town killed 7 more innocent people; in total 34 people died that summers day.

The Dublin Monaghan Bombings resulted in the greatest loss of life in any single day of the Troubles. 

Within ten weeks the investigations into the bombings had been closed down by the state, nobody was ever charged, and the inquests into those killed on the streets of Dublin were never completed for more than three decades.

Not one guard knocked on any of the survivors or bereaved families doors no one was interviewed and all the evidence sent North from the bombings was lost by the authorities in Northern Ireland.

SURVIVORS

In 1993 nearly two decades after the atrocities the Ulster Volunteer Force claimed sole responsibility, however given the sophistication of the attack the families and survivors have always believed there was British Military involvement. 

Justice for the Forgotten was formed in 1996 by the bereaved families and survivors with the aim of campaigning for truth and justice for the victims of the bombings.

The chair of the group is Margaret Urwin who will be in attendance in Fethard.

For five decades they have faced the wrath of two states in trying to seek the truth for their loved ones.

THE TRUTH

In this human interest feature length documentary the families and survivors talk about that tragic day and how they have fought for 50 years to try and find the truth.