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A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-year-old man about the murder of an academic 40 years ago.

A week ago yesterday I found myself standing at a door just north of Dublin in the hope that I’d be able to ask a 74-year-old man about the murder of an academic 40 years ago.

The DUP once dismissed Jeffrey Donaldson as “Enoch Powell’s messenger boy” — and then he became their leader.

The man who was beside Edgar Graham when he was murdered 40 years ago today — standing so close to him that he was covered in his blood — has told how he carried a gun into lectures at Queen’s University, fearful he could be the IRA’s next target.

A law lecturer and north assembly member, Mr Graham was shot dead near Queen's University 

It was a balmy night on August 26, 1997, in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens.

Edgar Graham was just 29 years old when the IRA gunned him down on the street at Queen’s University in south Belfast.

THE LYRIC Theatre has sprung into 2024 with the announcement of their New Year programme featuring an array of upcoming shows from renowned playwrights and promising first-timers.

Late on the morning of December 7, 1983, students and lecturers were coming and going on Queen’s University’s campus, oblivious to the fact that an act which altered Northern Ireland for decades was about to unfold.

DUP and Sinn Féin leaders and representatives, along with the bulk of their party members and voters, are very keen to blame the ‘other side’ for undermining power-sharing.