Not so in Loughlinisland, where survivors and the family and friends of victims wanted truth and justice.

Even in Northern Ireland interest waned - the hope of peace made a weary people eager to forget the past and move on to a better future. The Loughlinisland massacre, which had initially made international headlines, faded from the public consciousness. But the search soon sputtered and then stalled altogether when, six weeks later, the IRA and the Loyalists declared a cease-fire. They quickly identified that the attack was ordered by the Loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Another police spokesperson assured the community that they would “leave no stone unturned.” The RUC never give up,” Sir Patrick Mayhew, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, said in a message to the assailants immediately after the killings. “You are going to be caught, sooner or later. The victims were innocent, but who was guilty? The government at first seemed determined to hunt down the gunmen. “You could not find anyone more innocent,” says Aiden O’Toole, the barman that night who was seriously wounded. None had any involvement in the decades-long “Troubles” - the ongoing conflict that pits elements of the Irish Republican Army against Loyalist paramilitaries, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the British Army. Gibney’s reenactment captures the horror of the atrocity, as do the actual crime scene stills of the blood-pooled pub strewn with six dead men, locals from town, all Catholics.

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