{"id":178797,"date":"2025-12-07T05:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:44:12","slug":"eamonn-sweeney-hillsborough-disaster-was-the-rotten-culmination-of-a-rotten-decade-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178797\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Sweeney: Hillsborough disaster was the rotten culmination of a rotten decade in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police line during a confrontation with miners at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in June 1984. The most violent incident of the UK miners' strike of 1984-1985, the 'Battle Of Orgreave' involved a mass picket by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and police from 10 counties.  Photo: Tom Stoddart\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5df62d8f-9341-4504-8d4a-7e8eae47f238.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A police line during a confrontation with miners at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in June 1984. The most violent incident of the UK miners&#8217; strike of 1984-1985, the &#8216;Battle Of Orgreave&#8217; involved a mass picket by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and police from 10 counties.  Photo: Tom Stoddart\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Margaret Thatcher was one of the main culprits for the Hillsborough disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">She wasn\u2019t named as such in the report delivered last week by the final inquiry into the tragic events of April 1989. But the behaviour of the police which led to 97 deaths, the subsequent cover-up and the smearing of the dead by The Sun newspaper were rooted in the political climate she created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police line during a confrontation with miners at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-178797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}