Tomás Ó Flatharta

We wish to again congratulate the dogged investigative reporter Chris Moore for putting so much dedicated hard work into a shocking story which will not go away.

This smoking volcano has become more active recently. The criminal scandal will not go away, and further political action is vital. We are duty bound to keep up the pressure and, above all, support the victims of horrendous British state crimes.

For decades the Belfast Kincora child abuse scandal has attracted false and unverified accusations. In my own case I refused to believe many rumours about the involvement of Lord Mountbatten in a child abuse ring because no credible evidence was placed in the public arena.

At the Dublin Irish Film Institute  (IFI) launch of the stunning documentary “Lost Boys of Belfast” in 2023 I made this observation to one of the documentary makers, Chris Moore.

I had noticed there was no reference to Mountbatten in the sensational documentary. Chris confirmed that the documentary makers made no mention of the Mountbatten allegations because they possessed no credible proof.

Today that is changed because Chris Moore put huge amounts of work researching this story and he has published credible evidence about Lord Mountbatten’s criminal activities.

The least we can say is this :

Read here here the carefully chosen recent words of Belfast journalist Suzanne Breen, Belfast Telegraph political correspondent and a frequent contributor to BBC NI politics programmes :

“Chris Moore says William McGrath worked for MI5, and it’s even possible that he was planted in the children’s home as part of an intelligence-gathering operation. The journalist makes a compelling case that MI5 — at the very least — knew about what was happening and kept quiet.

Shamefully, there has been no adequate inquiry into Kincora. Some files have been destroyed, while others have been locked away by the British government to 2065 and 2085.

The most marginalised and vulnerable children were raped by powerful men, allegedly including King Charles’ grand uncle.

The building at the centre of the scandal was demolished three years ago, but the cover up of the crimes committed behind its walls continues.It is long past the time that the full truth was told about what happened in the house of horrors.”

Political discussion of all serious problems related to the six county bit of Ireland are plagued by “whataboutery” – when criminal misbehaviour is identified, the whatabouters ignore hard evidence, promote selective nonsense, shoot at the messengers (in this case the investigative journalists Chris Moore and Suzanne Breen), and claim this is part of “a nationalist line to feed tabloid conspiracy theories”.

Step forward Mr Jeff Dudgeon

Source :  

Jeff Dudgeon ; Let’s believe the British state’s Kincora cover-up and claim Chris Moore is “simply pushing a nationalist line to feed tabloid conspiracy theories”

John Meehan May 22 2025