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Interview with Tom Buchanan and Pat Doherty by Myles Dungan for RTE Radio 1 Today with Myles Dungan on 8 August 2013

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Audio interview with Tom Buchanan, DUP MLA for West Tyrone, and Pat Doherty, Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone, by Myles Dungan for RTE Today with Myles Dungan on 9 August 2013. Two days later a controversial Sinn Féin march passed off peacefully in Castlederg, Co. Tyrone. It had been organised in commemoration of two members of the IRA who were killed in Castlederg in 1973 when the bombs they were transporting exploded. A unionist counter-demonstration during the march also passed off peacefully. Buchanan and Doherty discuss the issues of commemoration and victims in Northern Ireland. The Myles Dungan Show was a daily current affairs programme on RTE Radio 1.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 9 August 2013

Name of First Interviewee: Tom Buchanan

Name of Second Interviewee: Pat Doherty

Role at time of Interview: Tom Buchanan (DUP MLA for West Tyrone), Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone)

Interviewer: Myles Dungan

Purpose: News

Media: Audio

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Link: Listen to the interview

Programme/Book/Article: RTE Radio 1 Today with Myles Dungan

Time Period covered: 1973-2013

Key Individuals: Tom Buchanan, Pat Doherty

Key Words: Castlederg, DUP, Sinn Féin, IRA, victim, Parades Commission, commemoration

 

 

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