King Phillip was enraged, and all of Spain with him. Bearing the papal blessing, Philip launched the mighty Armada of 1588 — over 130 ships and nearly 30,000 men — to dethrone Elizabeth and restore Catholic supremacy.
Teachta Carthy said, “Headlines suggesting there was no collusion in the case of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings will have come as a shock to the families of those killed and injured in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings. Those headlines don’t reflect the reality or the contents of the final Kenova report, including its recognition of clear evidence of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries by state actors.
Most of those cases involved the killing of suspected British agents. The report makes clear that to protect Scappaticci, the British allowed the killings of others, including their own agents.Â