"Massacre at Ballymurphy" - @malodoherty says documentary doesn't tell the whole story of what happened in west Belfast in 1971

Sep 11, 2018, 01:48 PM

Almost five decades on, there's a new focus on what really happened in the Ballymurphy Estate in West Belfast in August 1971. Inquests into the deaths of 10 people shot dead by the army are due to open officially in November after a preliminary hearing last week. At the weekend, Channel 4 screened a new documentary, Massacre at Ballymurphy. It details the days between August 9th and 11th 1971 in west Belfast when ten people were shot dead, including a priest trying to aid one of the wounded, and a mother-of-eight. Another man later died of heart failure. But does the film tell the whole story? Stephen spoke to the film maker Callum Macrae, journalist and author Malachi O'Doherty and commentator Andree Murphy.