Sean Mc Manus with presidential candidate Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
By Vincent Kearney. BBC. NI. JUNE 21, 2014 BBC NI home affairs correspondent Liam Holden was 19 when he was arrested and convicted of a soldier’s murder It happened almost 40 years ago, but Liam Holden can still recall the sensation of gasping for breath as water was slowly poured on to a towel covering his face. “That feeling […]
By Vincent Kearney. BBC NI OCTOBER 12, 2013 A documentary hears claims that water boarding was used during the Troubles (reconstruction image) The term water boarding has been widely used in recent years. Since the attack on the Twin Towers in 9/11, the previously little known interrogation technique has been a central and […]
BBC NI. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014 The British government authorised the use of torture methods in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, an RTÉ documentary has revealed. The finding was contained in a memo obtained by RTÉ’s Investigation Unit. The programme alleged the practice was carried out on 14 Catholic men after they were interned in 1971. ‘The Torture Files’ contained correspondence sent by the then Home Secretary Merlyn Rees to the Prime Minister James Callaghan in March 1977. The […]
New statistics show gaps between religions and sexes BY DAVE WHELAN –. Belfast Telegraph. Friday , May 30, 2014 Young Protestant boys from poorer backgrounds are still stuck on the bottom rung of our education ladder, new statistics have confirmed. The Department of Education figures boast an increase of 2% in the number of pupils achieving at […]
Nationalists in the North know all about the perils of flirting with the Shinners. Tom Kelly. Sunday Independent ( Dublin).June 8, 2014 Mary Lou McDonald with party leader Gerry Adams THE Chinese have a proverb, which goes ‘to attend an emperor is like sleeping with a tiger’. Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams may not quite be an emperor yet but he […]
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