Francis Hughes

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Assault victim Graham Tobin: his wife said it was difficult enough to accept he had died from a violent assault but this was compounded by the way he was left lying ‘for hours’ in ‘a stranger’s house’ while critically injured.
Man jailed for eight years for ‘one-punch’ manslaughter

A 27-year-old Co Monaghan man who caused the death of a popular chef and father of four in a “single-punch” incident has been sentenced to eight years(...)

The 10 hunger strikers who died in 1981: Our project, which includes this Irish Times series, a conference that took place in London at the University of Notre Dame and a special issue of the academic journal, The Irish Review, has sought to reassess the events of 1981, and their legacy, 35 years on
Still rethinking the 1980/’81 hunger strikes

Irish identities, Ian McBride argues in History and Memory in Modern Ireland, are “constructed upon a grid of talismanic dates”. The commemorative pr(...)

Paul Breen: ‘I would be happy with the term Londoner. I embrace the culture, identity and history of the London Irish.’
Embracing Irishness and Britishness as a Fermanagh man in London

Reading the Generation Emigration article by another Fermanagh-born writer, Kylie Noble, on Monday, I found it refreshing and thought-provoking. My ow(...)

Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
FAI silence on video of John Delaney singing republican ballad

The FAI has failed to respond to questions put to it regarding a video showing its chief executive, John Delaney, singing the republican ballad Joe(...)

A piper leading the funeral of Seamus Heaney through Bellaghy yesterday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees

Seamus Heaney was laid to rest yesterday evening in a country churchyard in south Derry under the shade of sycamore and ash trees.“May the green sods (...)