Bloody Sunday is the name given to the day when the British Army massacred unarmed civilians in the Bogside area of Derry. On 30th January 1972, fourteen Civil Rights marchers were murdered by British Army paratroopers. Fourteen others were wounded.
The families of the murdered victims and the victims who were wounded spent the next two and a half decades campaigning for a full scale judicial inquiry to establish the truth.
On 29th January 1998, after almost 26 years, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in the House of Commons:
“… that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely the events on Sunday 30 January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day, taking account of any new information relevant to events on that day.”
Madden & Finucane has worked for more than 30 years for the victims of Bloody Sunday. We represented the majority of the deceased and wounded at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry between 1998 and 2004 and represented the families in their pursuit of fair and reasonable compensation.
Solicitors from Madden & Finucane, who represent the majority of the families of the people murdered and the people wounded on Bloody Sunday, arrive at the Guildhall, Derry for the release of the report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry – 15 June 2010