{"id":319272,"date":"2026-02-27T01:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319272\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:37:17","slug":"the-dunblane-tapes-deeply-moving-documentary-lays-bare-parents-grief-30-years-after-the-tragic-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319272\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Dunblane Tapes\u2019: Deeply moving documentary lays bare parents\u2019 grief 30 years after the tragic school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Will Stone\u2019s film about the Scottish mass shooting shows how the parents fought through the pain to have the UK\u2019s gun laws changed in the face of political cowardice and the hostility of the pro-gun lobby\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Teacher Gwen Mayor, who was killed in the Dunblane massacre in 1996, with her class of children, 16 of whom also died. Photo: Mathieu Polak\/Getty Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ttyImages_863360946.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)\">Teacher Gwen Mayor, who was killed in the Dunblane massacre in 1996, with her class of children, 16 of whom also died. Photo: Mathieu Polak\/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)\">Thirty years ago next month, a man armed with two 9mm Browning semi-automatic pistols and two .357 Magnum revolvers parked his car at the primary school in the Scottish town of Dunblane.<\/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)\">He entered the gymnasium and opened fire, murdering 16 children, aged between five and six and in their first year of school, and a teacher, Gwen Mayor, before killing himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Stone\u2019s film about the Scottish mass shooting shows how the parents fought through the pain to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9617],"class_list":{"0":"post-319272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-pat-stacey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319272","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=319272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}