Veteran Irish militant to sue Disney over depiction
5/12/2024 5:57
Veteran Irish militant Marian
Price has initiated legal proceedings against Walt Disney
after she was depicted killing Jean McConville in 1972
in the hit U.S. streaming series "Say Nothing."
The shooting dead of McConville, the mother of 10 children
who was seized from her home by the Irish Republican Army, was
one of the most controversial of over 3,000 killings in three
decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
"Say Nothing", based on the 2018 book of the same name by
Patrick Radden Keefe, has been streaming on Hulu, and Disney+
outside the United States since last month.
Lawyers for Price on Wednesday said they issued pre-action
correspondence against Disney.
"It is difficult to envisage a more egregious allegation
than the one to which has been levelled against our client,"
said Peter Corrigan, a solicitor for Price, in a statement.
"Such allegations published on an international scale are
not only unjustified, but they are odious insofar as they seek
to cause our client immeasurable harm in exchange for greater
streaming success."
"Our client has now been forced to initiate legal
proceedings to hold Disney to account for their actions," he
said.
Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Price came to prominence with her sister Dolours after they
were convicted of carrying out a 1973 IRA bombing campaign in
London during which they targeted the Old Bailey courts with a
bomb that injured over 200 people.
Marian served time in prison for the bombing.
The series depicts Price as the person responsible for
killing McConville, who was abducted in 1972 in front of her 10
children.
One of McConville's children, Michael, has objected to her
death being used as "entertainment".
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