Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Author “Justice For My Father”|GE Candidate 24 | Restorative Justice | Advocate on legacy issues of Irish conflict | Health & Safety | Prostate Cancer Awareness

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

The paperback version of my book with updated cover will be available from 12 March, to purchase follow the link: https://t.co/TLGGxStcyy #Justice #IRA #Troubles #TrueCrime #Books #Ireland #History

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

My interview on RTE Six One New yesterday following the State apology in relation to the mishandling of the investigation into my Dad’s murder #JusticeForMyFather #IRA #Ireland #fyp #fypage

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

My family statement following the State apology for the mishandling of the investigation into my Dad’s murder #JusticeForMyFather #IRA #Ireland #fyp #fypage

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

The State apology for the mishandling of the investigation into my Dad’s murder #JusticeForMyFather #IRA #Ireland #fyp #fypage

[Billy Kelleher MEP @BillyKelleherEU]

Sinn Féin claims they support neutrality, yet they supported terror organisations around the world, ETA and FARC come to mind. That is hardly consistent with their current devotion to military neutrality.

SF never consulted the Irish People about their support of terror groups

[Micheál Martin @MichealMartinTD]

Today, I offered a formal apology on behalf of the Government for failings in the investigation into the murder of Brian Stack by the Provisional IRA in the 1980s.

I am deeply sorry for what they have endured, and I pay tribute to their dignity and tireless campaign for truth.

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

@idottya2 @MichealMartinTD Arranged interview that could have been changed. She should have been there, end of…..

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

Want to thank the Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD for delivering the State apology in relation to my Dad’s murder. It’s a pity that the Leader of the Opposition choice not to attend, it was very disrespectful to my family & we protested by leaving the chamber when the SF people spoke

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Brian Stack was "badly failed" by the investigation into his murder in the 1980s, the Taoiseach has said, as he delivered a State apology to his family https://t.co/uSF1MKa3Ed

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

On 25 March 1983, the Chief Prison Officer at Portlaoise prison Brian Stack left a boxing match at the National Stadium in Dublin. His job involved him supervising the fortress that held the IRA's most dangerous prisoners. As he left boxing that night a gunman shot him in the neck. Stack survived but was paralysed, and lingered for 18 months before dying in September 1984, aged 49. He left behind his widow Sheila and three sons.

Three separate Garda investigations produced no charge and no conviction. In 2013, thirty years on, the Provisional IRA finally admitted responsibility. It met with Stacks sons and said the killing was unauthorised, a product of a brutal prison regime. Still no name was offered.

His son Austin refused to let it rest. He followed his father into the prison service and spent decades pressing for answers. He sat face to face with Gerry Adams and on another occasion was driven in a blacked-out van to meet the IRA. Last year he published his account, Justice for My Father.

The cracks in the official story kept widening. In 2019, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris apologised for failings in the case. An internal review had found 194 errors and omissions in the first investigation alone. Key evidence went missing and has never been explained. Last year, with a file sitting with the DPP, gardaí told the family they were following fresh lines of inquiry.

Today Taoiseach Micheál Martin is due to stand in the Dáil and apologise on behalf of the State for the failings in all three investigations.

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

I recorded an important podcast with the Indo Daily ahead of tomorrow’s State apology in relation to the mishandling of my Dad’s murder investigation:

https://t.co/gP0hdvsbfv
#JusticeForMyFather

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

Two part podcast that I did this week with the Indo Daily #JusticeForMyFather
https://t.co/0ksFnsBDQv

https://t.co/JgV3v2O3be

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

My interview on @morningireland this morning in relation to the State apology around the mishandling of the Garda investigation into my Dad’s murder which An Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD will deliver to the Dail on Wednesday. #JusticeForMyFather https://t.co/6mh4TG1VWx

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Austin Stack thanked Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris who he said have shown 'true political leadership' in agreeing to the apology

https://t.co/gnBuSrctNx

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

My interview on @morningireland this morning in relation to the State apology around the mishandling of the Garda investigation into my Dad’s murder which An Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD will deliver to the Dail on Wednesday. #JusticeForMyFather https://t.co/6mh4TG1VWx

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

I will be on @morningireland at 8.20am to discuss the State apology in relation to the errors & omissions of three separate Garda investigations into my Dad’s murder. I outlined these & other issues in my book “Justice For My Father” @GillHessLtd @eriu_books #Justice

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The family of a prison officer who was murdered by the IRA over 40 years ago is scheduled to receive a formal State apology in the Dáil on Wednesday for failings in the subsequent investigations into his killing
https://t.co/zZlTmFk4bJ

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

@jmo4282 @BelTel Incorrect, you should fully inform yourself before making idiotic comments…..

[Austin Stack 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @adstack68]

The State will formally apologise to my family in relation to my Dad’s murder this Wednesday in the Dail. https://t.co/HHx9F4KrDC #JusticeForMyFather @GillHessLtd @eriu_books

[Gill Hess Associates @GillHessLtd]

https://t.co/tZZUsRdMja #JusticeForMyFather @eriu_books @adstack68

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1984 the IRA murdered Brian Stack. Married father, 48. Off duty Irish chief prison officer at Portlaoise, shot & brain damaged/paralysed 25/3/83 on a Dublin St leaving a boxing match. Died #OTD. "As a 14 yr old you`re shaving your father..." https://t.co/6CelSUDZrs