Shooting Crows- Mass Murder, State Collusion and Press Freedom

Everyone knows where they when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Loughinisland, Co. Down was no exception. But two miles down the road, three loyalists with no interest in Ireland's footballing progress were planning a deadly massacre. Shortly after half-time, they burst through the door of the bar and opened fire, spraying bullets indiscriminately. As they fled the scene, six innocent Catholic men lay dead or dying.

In 2017 journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey produced a groundbreaking documentary, No Stone Unturned, about Loughinisland and allegations of collusion between the RUC and loyalist terrorists behind the attack. However, it was Birney and McCaffrey, not the perpetrators of violence, who then found themselves the target of PSNI anger.

Shooting Crows tells a shocking story of collusion and betrayal, and a state still willing to corrupt justice and persecute the innocent in order to hide the sins of its past.