A little over a month ago a call to my mobile phone was the beginning of a sequence of events that took me to…
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At Milltown Cemetery yesterday Martina Anderson was introduced both as the Sinn Fein MEP and as a former POW - meaning prisoner of war.…
In peace processes across the world there will be things that all sides won’t want to know but, here, there is no credible explanation for…
It is a pattern with which I am familiar. A telephone call and a meeting place arranged - this the prelude to another statement being…
Today the eamonnmallie.com website prints an unpublished note dated June 11 2002 describing the letters element in the OTR process. I found it in an…
Around the time the news of the Downey case was breaking in London on Tuesday, a victims conference in Belfast was coming to an…
Deniers, amnesiacs, and stonewallers: step aside The deniers, amnesiacs, refuseniks and blockers have been out in force of late. Anne Cadwallader’s book, Lethal Allies,…
I was born in 1967 and raised in West Belfast growing up 100 meters from what became known as the peace-line: that physical barrier…
You have to read this book in its time; in other words, think back thirty years. There were no ceasefires and no peace process.…
Tony Novosel’s excellent and substantial analysis, ‘Where Do We Go From Here’ should be read and considered by both loyalists and republicans. My own view…
There are words we hear in life that never leave us – stored in that remembering part of us that never forgets. It could…
Last night we had a briefing from senior retired police officers about the threat to national security from evidence that is being given in…
There’s one thing Sinn Fein can’t get enough of and it’s Unionist disarray. They tried the whole bomb-made uncertainty thing and that didn’t work,…
I wondered what ‘cultural war’ would really look like and, having thought about it, I hope we never go there. By now, a lot…
(You can follow Brian Rowan on Twitter by clicking here) An old saying comes to mind – that we’re all different. We all have our…