POINTING at an image of his bandmates on an assembly hall screen, Stephen Travers asks a roomful of school pupils, ‘Can any of you identify the Protestants or the Catholics?’ It was a question no teacher would dare ask, but for the Miami Showband survivor it was part of an important lesson not being taught in today’s classroom – the horror of Ulster’s troubled past. SomeContinue reading “Bringing the horror of Ulster’s past, into today’s classroom”
Monthly Archives: February 2018
‘I know I am not the only one he has raped’ – woman left for dead after horror attack at 8 years old breaks silence
Simone aged 8 By Patricia Devlin A WOMAN left for dead in a sickening sex attack when she was just eight years-old has broken her silence for the first time. Brave Simone Cunnane from Newry, Co Down, has waived her right to anonymity to tell the Sunday World: “I know the identity of the strangerContinue reading “‘I know I am not the only one he has raped’ – woman left for dead after horror attack at 8 years old breaks silence”
