Mar 1, 2005 Comments Off on Monsignor Faul regrets his ‘late intervention’ (2005)
Monsignor Faul regrets his ‘late intervention’ (2005)
Monsignor Faul regrets his ‘late intervention’
(Catherine Morrison, Irish News)
A key player in the 1981 hunger strikes last night (Monday) said he regretted not intervening earlier in the protest.
Monsignor Denis Faul, was a regular visitor at the Maze prison at the time and a supporter of the prisoners’ families.
Mgr Faul described how, by the end of June 1981, he believed the strikes were all but over.
Four prisoners had died agonising slow deaths from starvation, but unbeknownst to Mgr Faul at the time, six more would die before the protest was brought to an end.
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