28-04-2025
- Politics
- Belfast Telegraph
Son of murdered prison officer: ‘IRA couldn't admit murder was sanctioned because of political repercussions'
On the 25 March 1983, Brian Stack was walking to his car after attending a boxing tournament in Dublin.
A gunman approached him from behind and shot him in the neck – left paraplegic and in a six-month long coma, he succumbed to his wounds 18 months later.
There was never any doubt that the IRA carried out this heinous murder.
Austin Stack has long fought for the truth and for justice for his father, meeting with Sinn Féin and IRA officials, including Gerry Adams, to try and get to the bottom of the killing.
He has now written a book about that struggle – it's called 'Justice for my Father'.
To talk about his father and the Stack family's fight for justice, Austin Stack joined Ciarán Dunbar.
