David Howes

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Singer Celine Byrne and pianist Rosetta Cucchi at the National Opera House in Wexford
Wexford opera, virtually: A bittersweet affair in Covid’s shadow

The Festival in the Air ran from October 11th-18th. The original Shakespeare-themed programme has been postponed to next year, and the Festival in the(...)

Storm Large from Pink Martini performs Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this week

The Opera Director Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Saturday April 21st 3pm Adm free but ticketed Irish National Opera’s MusicTown presentation of Mozart’s The (...)

The car containing two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, as it drove into a funeral cortege in west Belfast in 1988.
Guns, grenades and lynchings: Revisiting the funeral murders

Thirty years ago today in Belfast a silver car reversed at speed into the republican funeral cortege of an IRA volunteer, Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, also (...)

An injured man is aided by mourners, including Martin McGuinness, left, at Milltown cemetary in 1978. Photograph: David Jones/PA Archive/PA Images
BBC film about IRA funeral murders to air in March
  • Film
  • March 7, 2018, 08:33

Unheard testimony from the families of victims of the bombing of an IRA funeral by loyalist paramilitary member Michael Stone and of a revenge attack (...)

The London Supreme Court said on Thursday, ruling on the case of Ameen Jogee and Mohammed Hirsi (pictured), it was not right that someone should be guilty merely because they foresaw that a co-accused might commit a crime Photograph: Leicestershire Police/PA Wire
North murder cases could be reopened after court ruling

A London Supreme Court ruling on the issue of joint enterprise could lead to the reopening of several Northern Ireland cases including the murders of (...)

Fr Alec Reid after he was presented with “Tipperary Person of the Year” in 2006. Photograph: John Cogill
North’s peacemaker priest Fr Alec Reid dies in Dublin

Fr Alec Reid, who was a pivotal figure during the emerging peace process in Northern Ireland, died yesterday.Fr Reid has been described as a “pillar o(...)