Television: Documentary conveys nightmare left in the wake of the murder of Bellaghy GAA chairman Seán Brown by a loyalist death squad 25 years ago
Television: Documentary conveys nightmare left in the wake of the murder of Bellaghy GAA chairman Seán Brown by a loyalist death squad 25 years agoThe challenge when making a documentary about the murder in May 1997 of Bellaghy GAA chairman Seán Brown is to balance the personal and the political.
The plan formulated by loyalist terrorists was to spread fear among the nationalist community by putting a crosshair on everyone’s back. If you were a nationalist and you didn’t lie down, you were a target. Nuala O’Connor on her adult autism diagnosis: ‘I’d found out it was my brain pushing me in these directions ... I was euphoric’Brown, a prominent GAA man, was one such victim and was abducted late one night as he was locking the gates of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones. “The tea was put on, and Dad didn’t come home,” says daughter Clare. In heartbreaking footage filmed months before his killing, we see him welcome Bellaghy native Seamus Heaney back to the Wolfe Tones club.
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