Video interview with David McKittrick, journalist, and Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, 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. McKittrick and O’Leary discuss the escalation of loyalist military activity within the contexts of developments in the peace process and unionist political culture.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 20 June 1994
Name of First Interviewee: David McKittrick
Name of Second Interviewee: Brendan O’Leary
Role at time of Interview: David McKittrick (journalist), Brendan O’Leary (Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics)
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: ©2013 ITN All rights reserved
Link: Watch the video
Programme/Book/Article: ITN
Time Period covered: 1994
Key Individuals: David McKittrick, Brendan O’Leary
Key Words: Loughinsland killings, UVF, loyalist paramilitary, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Downing Street Declaration