The Street
Death at the Side of the Road
Note: Not for the squeamish.
Guns on the Falls
An amazing story from Will Glendinning, who has been an Alliance Party councillor and a Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council.
He describes how he, as a schoolboy cadet, moved guns through the Falls Road in the mid-sixties, at a time when Unionist leaders were warning the that IRA was arming and preparing for war. Well, if they really believed that themselves, it is strange that they let Protestant schoolboys travel by bus through the Falls with rifles on their laps that could easily have been stolen from them.
Summertime means …
Now that we are being woken early by birdsong and sunlight, how come we are feeling better than we did in darkest winter when we could sleep through the night? Here’s a chat with some country people about their love of summer.
The Victims’ Forum
The Commission for Victims and Survivors in Northern Ireland has established a pilot Victims’ Forum which has brought together people who have suffered, but many of whom don’t regard others at the table as victims at all, but as perpetrators or apologists for perpetrators.
Still, this unlikely grouping has held together and forged relationships, perhaps by avoiding the contentious question of who is or isn’t a legitimate victim.
Malachi O’Doherty has recorded this interview with two of those at the table. They are Alan McBride, whose wife was killed in the IRA bombing of Frizell’s Fish shop on the Shankill Road on October 1993, and Jude Whyte, whose mother was killed in a UVF bomb at their home in University Street in 1984.
The first voice is Alan’s.