Prisoner release: A quarter-century later, this part of the Belfast Agreement is still an open wound
A quarter-century later, this issue is still an open wound. People who were hurt are still hurting
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A quarter-century later, this issue is still an open wound. People who were hurt are still hurting
‘Today we were unlucky,” the IRA said in an infamous statement claiming responsibility for the Brighton bomb in 1984. While five people had been killed, their target, Margaret Thatcher, emerged unscathed. “But remember we have only to be lucky once,” the IRA sneered. “You will have to be lucky always.”
The Northern conflict arguably began in January 1969 when loyalists violently attacked a civil rights march at Burntollet Bridge and was perhaps bookended by the Omagh bomb in August 1998 – months after the Good Friday Agreement – which turned out to be the worst atrocity of all.
Rory Carroll's 'There Will Be Fire' revisits an infamous 1984 IRA bombing. He explains why it was important to have sympathy for all sides of the Troubles.
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