Parliamentary Activity

54th anniversary of IRA murders of two police officers in Londonderry

That this House notes that, on 27 January 1972, Sergeant Peter Gilgunn and Constable David Montgomery, two police officers on patrol in Londonderry, were murdered by the Provisional IRA using a Thompson sub machine gun; further notes that this happened in the vicinity of, and just three days before, the events that were subsequently described as Bloody Sunday; and regrets that the Saville Report into the events of that day contained references to the activities of some soldiers on the day as ...