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Family of prison officer shot dead by IRA to get state apology
Brian Stack was shot in the back of the neck as he left a boxing match in 1983
The family of a senior Irish prison officer murdered by the IRA is to receive a state apology on Wednesday for failings in investigations into his killing.
Brian Stack, a father of three, was crossing a street in Dublin, after leaving a boxing match in 1983, when he was shot in the back of the neck.
Stack, who was the chief prison officer at the high-security Portlaoise Prison, was left paralysed and died 18 months later, aged 49.
There were three separate garda (Irish police) investigations into Stack's death, but no-one was brought to justice for his killing. On Wednesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin will offer an apology on behalf of the state during a sitting of the Dáil (Irish parliament).
Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme Brian Stack's son, Austin Stack, said the apology "means an awful lot to us".
"It's a great sense of comfort, to particularly my mother and to myself and my two brothers, because the state is officially owning up to the errors and the missions that happened," he said.
He went on to say that the serious crime review team looked into the first investigation and "they found 194 errors and omissions".
"So I have, and my family have, met with several ministers for justice down through the years and we have a requested sight of that report.
"And every time we've requested it, we've been told that it's an internally valid document and that we cannot see it."