The Supreme Court has again blocked Boston College from handing over tapes featuring interviews with convicted IRA car bomber Delours Price to the Northern Irish Police, the Boston Herald reports. This will be the last stay granted by the Supreme Court and will last until November 16th.
The high court has overturned a lower court’s ruling from last Wednesday that the college turn over tapes of Price to the Northern Irish authorities so that they could investigate the death of a Belfast woman in 1972 in which the IRA are prime suspects.
The interviews recorded between 2001 and 2006 feature Price and other IRA members talking about their IRA activities for the Belfast Project, a program put in place so journalists and historians can accurately study the troubles in Northern Ireland.
The stay is only temporary however and will be quashed by November 16th if there are no further appeals to the Supreme Court.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.seamus60 | Oct 23, 2012, 03:53 PM EDT
Just an over the top exercise with both the British and American security agencies telling anyone contimplating whistle blowing, it will not be tolerated.
IrelandNorth | Oct 22, 2012, 07:10 AM EDT
This is getting to be a bit of a ground hog day story. Soap opera material for televsion, I anticipate. Or why not got straignt to DVD with "Boston College: The Movie." I'm all for peace and reconciliation tribunals for all parties to seemingl interminable conflicts, but only in the context of amnesties for protagonists.
Searlit | Oct 19, 2012, 03:04 PM EDT
I hold onto a thread of hope.
redhand32 | Oct 19, 2012, 11:58 AM EDT
The SCOTUS "decision" temp stay is all political. By deferring their ultimate decision letting the Butchers Apron loose on BC, the right wing court avoids any pre-election pissing off pro-life Irish Americans who supported Irish unification goals but vote (US) Republican. Do you really think Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and the like are not coat holders of British interests ?
Searlit | Oct 19, 2012, 10:25 AM EDT
BC is doing the right thing, by fighting this.
Murph46 | Oct 19, 2012, 09:39 AM EDT
Hurray -they BC promised confidentiality!