In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
THE names Noel Phillips, Joan Connolly, Joseph Corr, Pat McCarthy, John McKerr, Joseph Laverty, Daniel Taggart, Eddie Doherty, Frank Quinn and Fr Hugh Mullan are not names that people living on the English side of the Irish Sea may be familiar with.
However, thanks to a new documentary film made by award-winning director Callum Macrae, hopefully that will soon change.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER


