'Above The Law' - RTE documentary on punishment beatings

There have been more than 6,000 paramilitary ‘punishment’ attacks on men, women and children across Northern Ireland since the start of the Troubles. Lives were lost and limbs destroyed in assaults and shootings carried out by paramilitary organisations on both sides.

Liam Kennedy speaks on RTE 'Morning Ireland' about the surge in punishment beatings

listen to ‘Liam Kennedy - Punishment beatings on the rise in Northern Ireland’ on audioBoom







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David Remnick - "In 1993, the IRA pumped more bullets into Irish Catholics than they did into the Army"

David Remnick wrote in the New Yorker in 1994:

"There is a lot of talk about the Troubles, but the biggest war is the war between the paramilitaries and their own communities. In 1993, the IRA pumped more bullets into Irish Catholics than they did into the Army."