Just under 24 hours later, republican paramilitaries ambushed a factory minibus at Kingsmill after four Catholics got off in Whitecross. Photograph: Bryan O’BrienSeamus O’Dowd remembers the agony of having to tell his mother that her husband Joe had been murdered. It was only at the 40-year anniversary that we started talking about it.”Eugene Reavey, Mary O'Dowd, Gabriel O'Dowd, Noel O'Dowd and Seamus O'DowdSeamus took over the family farm. Eugene Reavey outside the family home in Whitecross, Co Armagh, which was targeted by loyalist gunmenColin Worton was 15 when his 24-year-old brother Kenny was murdered. There’s nights I do not sleep, running in my head the way we have been shafted.

Source: The Irish Times January 03, 2026 19:41 UTC