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The Miami Showband (from left): Tony Geraghty, Fran O'Toole, Ray Millar, Des McAlea (Des Lee), Brain McCory and Stephen Travers. Photograph courtsey of Stephen Travers
Miami Showband massacre: ‘I heard my platform shoes click against each other. I still had both legs’
  • Music
  • July 31, 2020, 09:30

It wasn’t until my 50th year, when I read a scholarly essay about Northern Ireland, that I realised I was “a child of the Troubles”. It was, however, (...)

Patrick Kielty on stage in Belfast in 2012 to celebrate the Empire Laughs Back Comedy Club's 20th anniverary. Photograph: Elaine Hill/Kelly
Patrick Kielty: ‘We weren’t sure how many people would turn up – 400 queued around the corner’
  • Stage
  • July 6, 2020, 06:00

Patrick Kielty’s first Belfast standup set won him a keg of beer. It was freshers’ week at Queen’s University in 1989, and his housemates had nominate(...)

The funeral of Greysteel massacre victim Steven Mullan passes the Rising Sun bar where the atrocity took place. Photograph: Pacemaker
Greysteel massacre, 25 years on: ‘The smell of gun smoke has never left me’

Even after 25 years, paramedic Adrian McAuley can still smell the gun smoke from inside the Rising Sun in Greysteel. On a Saturday night in October 1(...)

What is gained by reporting carnage in such minuscule, exhaustive detail – the severed feet, missing eyes?
The Shankill Bomb: BBC documentary dishonours the dead and the living

In the immediate shock of devastation, as medical personnel and citizens sift through the wreckage of a bomb blast in a public place, every thought is(...)

The six men killed in O’Toole’s Bar in Loughinisland, Co Down, in 1994: (Top) Adrian Rogan (34), Barney Green (87), Don McCreanor (59); (bottom) Eamonn Byrne (39), Patsy O’Hare (34) and Malcolm Jenkinson (53).
Inquiries, ‘collusion’ and seeking truth in Loughinisland killings

Next Friday morning, a group, mostly men, mostly late middle-aged, hope and expect to hear a ruling from Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey in the Royal Cou(...)

O’Tooles bar in Loughinisland, Co Down: Aiden O’Toole (left) was the barman on duty on the night of the 1994 massacre during which Emma Rogan’s (right) father was killed. Photograph: Mark Marlow/Pacemaker
Loughinisland massacre: ‘What happened that night happened to everybody’

The lights of the Heights Bar shine out over the darkening fields of Loughinisland on Saturday evening. The occasional car slows down on the narrow co(...)

Damage to the main Derry to Moville road in Co Donegal. Photograph: Brian Hutton/PA
Back home in Derry: An epic 10-hour journey through the night from Belfast

The first warning was a text message. “Floods in Derry,” it read. “Be careful getting home.” I put my phone into my pocket as I got into the car at 7(...)

Clean up operations underway at Cockhill Bridge in Buncrana, Co Donegal, after heavy rain. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Devastation in northwest as month’s worth of rain falls in just a few hours

A huge cleanup effort is under way across the northwest following a catastrophic series of thunderstorms which washed away roads and bridges in Donega(...)