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Mourners file past the coffin of Father Hugh Mullan, who was killed in the Ballymurphy massacre
THE Ballymurphy inquest today heard claims from a former paratrooper that he ran through gunfire to supply fellow soldiers with ammunition during shootings in Belfast nearly 50 years ago.
The inquest is looking into the killings of 10 people shot dead by British troops in August 1971 just hours after the introduction of internment.
Witness M249 was giving testimony when he claimed that during five tours of the north of Ireland he had not once fired his own weapon.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report
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
