Darkley

On November 20, 1983, two gunmen stood outside the Darkley Pentecostalist Church in Co Armagh and shot dead the three men standing at the entrance. They were David Wilson, Harold Browne and Victor Cunningham and they were there to welcome ...

A Pentecostal pastor who witnessed the Darkley gospel hall massacre has said memories of the sectarian slaughter came flooding back when he heard how nine black church members had been shot dead in the United States. Mountain Lodge Pastor David ...

David Bell, from Mountain Lodge church in Darkley, was talking to the News Letter yesterday on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity – just hours after Attorney General John Larkin's proposals to end prosecutions for Troubles-related killings became public.

A County Armagh pastor has said he believes justice can still be done 30 years after a gun attack in which three members of the church were killed. Pastor David Bell was recalling the 1983 attack at Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church near Darkley. No ...

The book, 'Fire on the mountain – the true story of the Darkley church', covers the history of the church from 1953. “After the shooting we had around 1,000 letters of support from every denomination,” he said. David was in the church that night, aged ...

A Fermanagh woman, Edith Kenny Howarth - whose family was caught up in the Darkley Church shootings in Co. Armagh 30 years ago next month - says she “would like to meet the gunmen” and tell them “how wrong they were.” Three men lost their lives in ...