Author of Unfinished Business, historian Marisa McGlinchey writing in the Irish Times on the death of Lyra McKee.
They were a clarion call in the wake of the brutal killing of 29-year-old journalist, Lyra McKee, provoking spontaneous applause and a standing ovation from the congregation including, awkwardly, the politicians.
The absence of a functioning Stormont government in Northern Ireland has contributed to polarisation and diminished community relations, but the actions of the New IRA are not a consequence of the political vacuum.
Nor is the escalation of activity by the New IRA a consequence of Brexit, as it made clear after a bombing attack in Derry in January, which could have killed and maimed.
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Last weeks Talkback (William Crawley Radio Ulster), Malachi O'Doherty, Jim Flanagan and Brian Rowan were the guest's.. (Starts around 7mins).. At 17mins Brian Rowan posed this thought..Mostly about where do we go from here in the wake of Lyra McKees murder.
ReplyDeleteThink about our peace process, this year is twenty five years since the cease fires, now in 1994 when the IRA and Loyalists were sitting down and considering those moves, if you had said to them “by the way in 2019 we'll still be investigating you.” Would we have had those ceasefires? And just this point in 1998 when people voted for the Good Friday Agreement, would they have voted for the Good Friday Agreement if they thought in 2019 we would still be thinking about a strategy to end Paramilitarism, so there is so much unfinished business out there that has been ignored in the rush to history that we've left so much behind us...