Ireland apologises to family of prison official killed by IRA
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on MyJoyOnline
The Irish government apologised to the family of Brian Stack, a former senior prison official who was killed by the IRA after being seriously wounded by gunfire in Dublin in 1983. Prime Minister Micheál Martin acknowledged failings in the investigations; no one has been prosecuted for the murder, according to MyJoyOnline.
The Irish state apologised to the family of Brian Stack, a former senior official at Portlaoise high-security prison, on Wednesday for failings in the investigations into his murder by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Prime Minister Micheál Martin made the apology on behalf of the state before Parliament, according to MyJoyOnline.
Brian Stack was shot in Dublin in 1983 as he was returning from a boxing match. He was paralysed and died 18 months later, aged 49. Three investigations were conducted by the Irish police, but no one was brought to justice for the murder. His wife Sheila and their three sons attended the parliamentary session.
After the apology, Austin Stack asked Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to address the family’s concerns. Brian Stack’s sons left the chamber when members of the party spoke. McDonald welcomed the apology and recalled that the IRA had accepted responsibility and expressed regret more than a decade earlier. She did not attend the session, as she was in Belfast for an interview with the Police Service of Northern Ireland about protests on Garvaghy Road.
A Sinn Féin spokesperson said party members had spoken in Parliament and expressed the party’s solidarity with Sheila Stack and her sons.
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