The RUC widow left with a collusion legacy

Published in the Sunday World (March 25, 2018) IT’S been over 40 years since Rosemary Campbell was left a heartbroken widow. But for the 84 year-old nothing has changed since the day her Catholic RUC husband was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. That’s because the grandmother has been left with a collusion legacy where walls ofContinue reading “The RUC widow left with a collusion legacy”

Bringing the horror of Ulster’s past, into today’s classroom

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”