THE daughters of Ann McKernan have pledged to continue their mother’s forty-year fight for truth and justice following her passing last week. Ann’s brother Gerry Conlon was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford IRA pub bombings in England, which killed five people and injured 65. Gerry, along with two other men and one woman, known as […]
Archive | April, 2018
Quest for truth and justice goes on after Ann passes away
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Cross community march over job concerns
A CROSS community rally over job fears at Belfast leisure centres is to be held at the ‘peace gate’ at Northumberland Street tomorrow afternoon to protest at plans which they claim could cost 50 jobs. The event is organised to voice opposition to proposed job losses in leisure centres across the city, where some 49 […]
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Voices from the past have their say
A NEW book to be launched this month in Belfast features interviews with leading protagonists from the IRA in the north from the time of partition. The interviews were carried out by leading Dublin IRA man of the time, Ernie O’Malley, who became a respected historian of the period with his first hand experience of the War […]
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Pic of the Day, Friday April 6
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Pic of the day, Thursday, April 5
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Big-hitters in town to discuss GFA’s 20 years
THE significance and lasting legacy of the Good Friday Agreement, 20 years on, will be discussed at length as part of Féile an Phobail’s 30th anniversary programme. Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern along with former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, both leading architects of the Agreement, will be in attendance along with Tánaiste Simon Coveney at […]
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