Bloody Sunday is the name given to the day when the British Army massacred unarmed civilians in the Bogside area of Derry.

On 30th January 1972, fourteen Civil Rights marchers were murdered by British Army paratroopers. Fourteen others were wounded. Click here to view Massacre At Derry.

The Bloody Sunday Widgery Tribunal was established in 1972. Click here to view the report. Click here to view the Irish Government's assessment of the New Material Presented to the British Government in June 1997.

The families of the murdered victims and the victims who were wounded spent the next two and a half decades campaigning for a full scale judicial inquiry to establish the truth.

On 29th January 1998, after almost 26 years, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in the House of Commons:

"... that a Tribunal be established for inquiring into a definite matter of urgent public importance, namely the events on Sunday 30 January 1972 which led to loss of life in connection with the procession in Londonderry on that day, taking account of any new information relevant to events on that day."

Madden & Finucane were appointed to represent the majority of the families of the people murdered and the people wounded at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. Click here to view M&F Closing Submissions. Click here to view the report.
Click here to view press release by Peter Madden (17 June 2010). Click here to view press release from Madden & Finucane Solicitors regarding Bloody Sunday Inquiry Report (31 January 2011).

Click here to view press release from Madden & Finucane Solicitors regarding Bloody Sunday (22 September 2011).

Click here to view news article from BBC "Government to pay compensation to Bloody Sunday families" (22 September 2011).

Press Releases  |  Submissions  |  Admissibility Decisions 

Judgments  |  Rulings  |  Programme of the Bloody Sunday Weekend 2009