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The British government has ruled out launching a public inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries.
Following a decades-long campaign for justice by the lawyer’s family, the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told Westiminster yesterday that he had decided not to establish an inquiry.
Mr Finucane was shot dead in his family home in Belfast in 1989 by the Ulster Defence Association in an attack found to have involved collusion with the state.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
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
