DUNDALK’S FREE NEWSPAPER
Wednesday, 17th December, 2025. Vol. 18, Issue 51 • 9A, Crowe Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 932 0888 | Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
“I know in my heart the truth will never come out” By Paul Byrne
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ON Friday evening a public commemoration will take place at the bombing memorial on Crowe St. The event takes place exactly fifty years after a car bomb exploded outside the bar formerly known as Kay’s Tavern on Crowe St killing two local men. Louth County Council employee and fireman, Jack Rooney, and well-known and highly respected local tailor, Hugh Watters, died in the Dundalk bombing and to this day nobody has been convicted for that terrible deed.
Family members from both the Rooney and Watters family have fought for decades to find out the truth behind their loved one but as time goes by, hope is beginning to fade that a satisfactory conclusion will be reached for the families. Margaret English was just 22 when her dad, Hugh Watters was killed on that fateful day and having spent most of her adult life fighting to seek justice for her father she now believes that the truth will not come out in her lifetime. “I know in my heart the truth will never
come out. I’ve seen so many reports published and I used to get my hopes up when word would come out that there was
another report into the bomb- say I have little or no expectaings but as time went on I be- tions anymore of finding out gan to lose hope that we would the truth. ever find justice and I’m sad to Continued on Page 2
St. Vincent’s TY students spreading Christmas joy when they recently visited three local care homes, including St. Oliver’s, Curam and An Slí. Residents enjoyed the Carol singing and chats with the girls, in the annual event which is organised by teacher Edel McNulty.