Church, police covered up priest's role in IRA gang that killed nine in 1972 bombing

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Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 11:31 PM

The Catholic Church in Northern Ireland has admitted that a priest was the leader of an IRA unit that exploded a bomb in 1972 that killed nine people, five Catholics and four Protestants including an eight -year-old girl. Thirty people were injured. snip

Hutchinson revealed that the RUC at the time had top-grade intelligence that Chesney was a senior figure in the IRA unit that planted three car bombs in the County Derry village of Claudy in 1972. snip

Standing outside the village hotel where the third device detonated, survivor Paul O'Kane recalls that day nearly 40 ago.

"There was absolute devastation," he told Sky News.

"It was like something you would see on the news now in Baghdad.