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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Full Focus Editor's choice A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Full Article Follow Reuters IRA wrongly blamed for North Irish bombing: report Tweet Share this Link this By Ian Graham BELFAST (Reuters) -Police bias against the Provisional IRA led them to wrongly blame the republican militants for one of the worst atrocities of Northern Ireland's "troubles," a report said on Monday. Police failed to properly... 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Police failed to properly investigate intelligence and evidence that showed loyalist paramilitaries were behind the 1971 bombing of the Catholic-owned McGurk's Bar in Belfast that killed 15 people and injured 16, the report found. Loyalist groups made up of Protestants who wanted Northern Ireland to remain in the United Kingdom fought Republicans, mostly Catholics who wanted it to become part of the Republic of Ireland, during 30 years of violence that largely was ended by a 1998 peace deal. At the height of the Provisional IRA's campaign the bombing of McGurk's Bar initially was viewed by the security forces as an "own goal" -- the accidental explosion of a bomb being prepared for use by IRA members. It was not until 1977 when a member of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) group admitted being the getaway driver involved in the bombing of the bar and was convicted that the truth came out. Even then police failed to properly investigate the bombing, Northern Ireland's police ombudsman said. "The police investigation had a clear predisposition to the erroneous 'own goal' theory. This was perhaps in some way understandable given the extent of IRA bombings and attacks at the time," police ombudsman Al Hutchinson said. "However, the investigative bias leading to a failure to examine properly evidence and intelligence attributing the bombing to loyalist paramilitaries undermined both the investigation and any confidence the bereaved families had in obtaining justice." Hutchinson reviewed the investigation after a long campaign by family members of some of the victims, who also accused the police of collusion in the bombing. That claim was not supported by the ombudsman's 80-page report. 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