Martin Doyle, Ken Murray & Eugene Reavey in conversation with Mary Wilson

8:30 – 10 at Kinsale Methodist Church

A discussion on how identity, religion and politics divided communities in Northern Ireland and how cover up and silence impede recovery.

Martin Doyle is the books editor of The Irish Times. A former editor of the Irish Post, he has worked in journalism for over three decades and is a regular contributor to the media and arts programming. His book Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place, a personal, intimate history of the Troubles, was published by Merrion Press in 2023.

Ken Murray is a multi award-winning journalist. From 2016 to 2024, he was Ireland Correspondent for Euronews TV and he previously worked as a political and parliamentary correspondent for INN Radio News and as Dublin Correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland. Ken has authored All Kinds of Everything, the official biography of Dana Rosemary Scallon and My Saxophone saved my life, the biography of Des Lee, survivor of the 1975 Miami Showband massacre. He is also author of The killing of the Reavey Brothers. British murder and cover-up in Northern Ireland which recently won the UK True Crime Readers’ Choice Award 2026 and Covert History Ireland book of the year 2025.

Eugene Reavey, born in South Armagh in 1948, is the brother of John Martin, Brian and Anthony Reavey, who were killed by the Glenanne Gang in 1976. A founding member of the Truth and Reconciliation Platform (TARP), Eugene also leads Peaceful Futures South Armagh, an organisation promoting understanding and reconciliation to create a peaceful environment for future generations on all sides of the political divide in the North of Ireland. Eugene has campaigned for truth and justice surrounding the murder of his brothers since January 1976.