NORAID’s Martin Galvin’s Northern Ireland visit
- Title
- NORAID’s Martin Galvin’s Northern Ireland visit
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 21 Aug 1984
- Year of production
- 1984
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- Duration
- 00:03:20
- Description
- Report on a press conference with NORAID leader Martin Galvin, after the security forces tried and failed to arrest him at a republican rally in Northern Ireland nine days ago (he is banned from the UK). He comments on the death of Sean Downes by a police plastic bullet at the rally. Includes excerpts of press conference and from independent radio interview with Galvin where he says NORAID money should go to weapons buying. Male reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Martin Galvin
- Keywords
- Deaths; Political demonstrations; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Police; UK; Violence; Republicanism; RUC; Arrests; Martin Galvin; NORAID; Sean Downes
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LBC/IRN, "NORAID’s Martin Galvin’s Northern Ireland visit". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006000236017 (Accessed 03 Aug 2025)