Stephen McConomy was shot and killed by a British soldier in Derry in 1972
Eleven-year-old Stephen McConomy was out playing with his friends on April 16, 1982, when a member of the Royal Anglican Regiment shot him in the head with a plastic bullet.
The ‘Time for the Truth’ event will include representatives of families from across the North still seeking truth and justice for their loved ones killed during the Troubles.
The event takes place at the Stephen McConomy Memorial at the steps on Fahan Street at 3.00pm.
Speakers will include Stephen’s brother, Emmett McConomy.
The other guest speaker at the event in Derry will be Robert McClenaghan from Belfast.
At 8.45pm on December 4, 1971, a bomb planted by the UVF ripped through McGurk’s Bar on the corner of North Queen Street and Great George’s Street, near the nationalist New Lodge Road in North Belfast.
The bar was owned by Patrick McGurk.
A total of 15 men, women and children died in the sectarian atrocity.
The RUC, unionist politicians and the British Government blamed the attack on the IRA, attributing it to a premature explosion.
Robert McClenaghan’s grandfather, Philip Garry, died in the UVF explosion.
Friday’s ‘Time for the Truth’ event has been organised by the Bogside and Brandywell Monument Committee and forms part of Féile 2018.
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