THE daughter of a SDLP activist murdered by a loyalist gang 40 years ago has told of the heartbreaking decision to exhume her father’s remains. Denise Mullen said she was left with “no choice” but to move dad Denis’ body from a plot in Co Tyrone after years of pain stopped both her and herContinue reading “‘Forty years after they murdered him, Daddy is finally at rest’”
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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”
Patricia Devlin 