He is the author of the best-selling book Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike (2005) and Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer that Changed Irish History (2010). That result must have dismayed the police because the only person they sought in the Maguire household on the basis of false allegations was Anne Maguire and there was no incriminating forensic evidence against her.

But he also gently reminds us that while some to this day still view him as perpetrator rather a victim because of this human weakness, Gerry Conlon was in fact the first casualty of his own signature. Col 3:17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. As far as the IRA was concerned, ‘…if civilians got blown to smithereens, then so be it; it was their own fault.What cut this short was Conlon's move to London during an IRA bombing campaign and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you would like to hear more about Mags Riordan's inspiring story and her journey to set up an NGO in Malawi, you can listen to her interview on RTE Radio 1.

The author deserves praise for refusing to allow his lifelong, deep friendship with Conlon to whitewash many of Gerry s own personal failings.Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. As a consequence all the adults who had been in the family home and three of Anne Maguire's children were detained by the police on the evening of 3 December 1974.