In this Inside Belfast column Fionnuala O Connor recorded the first deaths of another new year of the Troubles in Northern Ireland


Mary Holland was at the funeral of an IRA man murdered by loyalist Michael Stone in Belfast’s Milltown cemetery when two British army corporals strayed into its path and were also murdered in one of the worst series of events during the Northern ‘Troubles’









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