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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Dominic McGrath

Aontu TD Peadar Toibin names Soldier F in Dail

An Irish TD has used parliamentary privilege to name a soldier who had been accused of murdering two men during Bloody Sunday in 1972.

Aontu leader Peadar Toibin made the intervention as he condemned a UK Government plan that would prohibit future prosecutions of military veterans and ex-paramilitaries for Troubles incidents pre-dating April 1998.

The politician was speaking in the Dail after a damning police watchdog report found officers in Northern Ireland had engaged in "collusive behaviours" with paramilitary killers

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