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This photograph,
said to date from the day after Seamus
Ludlow's body was discovered in May 1976,
shows members of the Gardai investigation
team in the lane at the scene of the
crime. Just what they were looking for
remains a mystery. Second from right,
in plain clothes, is the now retired
Dublin-based Garda murder squad
detective John Courtney. Mr.
Courtney is reported to have
received a file, identifying at least
three Loyalist suspects for Seamus
Ludlow's murder from the RUC in Belfast
in 1979. The existence of this file was
never made known to the Ludlow family,
who were still being told that there were
no other suspects. No action of any kind
was taken against the suspects by either
the Gardai or the RUC until their arrest
in 1998.
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Pictured here is
the Lisdoo Arms public house on the N1
road just north of Dundalk, the last
place where Seamus Ludlow was seen
drinking on the night of 1 May 1976.
There are reports that in the days after
his murder, the Gardai were given
information from a member of the public
which identified a British soldier who
was inside this bar at around the same
time. They were also given the
registration number of a car with three
men inside that was parked nearby. This
information was published by the late
Michael Cunningham, in his book Monaghan
County of Intrigue in 1979. |
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Right: In this photograph,
taken at Ravensdale's Catholic cemetery,
north of Dundalk, in County Louth,
Kevin Ludlow, ( left), the only living
brother of Seamus, stands with his
nephew Jimmy Sharkey at the grave of
Seamus Ludlow.
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Left: In this
newspaper photograph, Seamus
Ludlow, dressed as Santa Claus,
poses with his sister-in-law
Kitty Ludlow (now deceased) and
two of her sons Peadar and
Brendan. Seamus often played the
role of Santa Claus around
Dundalk at Christmas time. One
newspaper at the time of his
murder headlined its story with
"Who killed Santa
Claus?"
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The following photographs of the
late Seamus Ludlow's mother, a brother and a step
brother who are now deceased. They lived with the
pain of his loss but they did not see compassion
from the authorities. They all died without
justice, and without hearing of the true extent
of the cover-up that protected Seamus Ludlow's
Loyalist killers.
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Annie Ludlow
R.I.P., died January 1978, mother of
Seamus Ludlow. Mrs. Ludlow was elderly
and ill when her son was murdered. She
died without ever being told the truth of
her son's death. To spare her even
greater heartbreak, she was instead told
that he was killed in a traffic accident.
She was predeceased by her husband James
in 1967.
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Paddy Ludlow
R.I.P., Seamus Ludlow's brother, who died
on 8th. November 1991, aged 66 years.
Paddy lived at Marian Park, Dundalk. He
was predeceased by his wife Kitty, on 22
January 1981. Paddy was one of the first
witnesses to arrive at the scene of his
brother's murder on the afternoon of 2
May 1976. Accompanied by his brother
Kevin, who still leads the Ludlow
family's campaign for a public inquiry
and justice, Paddy went out searching for
his brother that Sunday morning. Neither
he nor his brother were present at the
inquest on 19 August 1976. Their absence
was due to the family's exclusion from
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Barney Larkin, R.I.P.,
Seamus Ludlow's step brother, who died on
3rd. September 1994, aged 72 years.
Barney, who lived at Bachelors Walk,
Dundalk, passed away only a few weeks
after his wife Margaret
("Peggy"), who died on 27th.
July of that year.
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