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Title Interviews with Hugh O’Toole, Leo Flanagan and Margaret Ritchie by John Draper for ITN on 20 June 1994
Date 20 June 1994
Description Video interviews with Hugh O’Toole (owner of the Heights bar), Leo Flanagan (former principal of Drumaness Primary School) and Margaret Ritchie (a family friend of victim Barney Greene) by John Draper for ITN on 20 June 1994. Two days earlier the UVF had carried out the Loughinsland killings. This was one event in a growing intensification of loyalist violence during the summer of 1994. O’Toole, Flanagan and Ritchie discuss the impact of the event on the victims’ families and the local community.
Date of Release/Broadcast 20 June 1994
Name of First Interviewee Hugh O’Toole
Name of Second Interviewee Leo Flanagan
Name of Third Interviewee Margaret Ritchie
Role at time of Interview Hugh O’Toole (owner of the Heights bar), Leo Flanagan (former principal of Drumaness Primary School), Margaret Ritchie (a family friend of victim Barney Greene)
Interviewer John Draper
Purpose News
Media Audiovisual
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Programme/Book/Article ITN
Time Period covered 1994
Key Individuals Hugh O’Toole, Leo Flanagan, Margaret Ritchie, Barney Greene
Key Words Loughinsland killings, UVF, loyalist paramilitary, education
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