The Northern Assembly has unanimously adopted a motion calling for a pardon and an apology for Irish soldiers who deserted to fight with the British army in the second World War, writes Gerry Moriarty.
Sinn Féin and SDLP Assembly members joined unionist and Alliance MLAs yesterday in supporting a DUP motion which condemned the treatment by the then Irish government of some 5,700 soldiers who deserted from the Irish Army.
