Boston College in Court over IRA Tapes

The World

A US appeals court has heard arguments over recorded interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army.

The interviews were part of an oral history project at Boston College.

Northern Ireland police probing the IRA’s 1972 killing of a Belfast woman want access to the interviews for their investigation.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks the BBC’s Andy Martin, who was at the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.

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