Northern Ireland

Elaine Byrne: The sad truth is, many Southerners care as little about the North as the British

Post-Brexit, it’s easy to point fingers at the apathy and neglect of Britain towards Northern Ireland. But many in the South are similarly disinterested

Civilians put under arrest on Bloody Sunday in 1972 when 14 people were shot dead by British soldiers at a protest march: members of the Irish establishment refused to meet family representatives of those killed. Picture: Getty

On the morning he was shot in the back with a machine gun, Aidan McAnespie was held for over an hour at the Aughnacloy checkpoint in Tyrone on his way back from his uncle’s wake in Monaghan.

The shop steward from Monaghan Poultry Products had endured years of harassment and threats from the British soldiers on the Tyrone-Monaghan border, so much so that his family was concerned for his safety, and his mother often walked ...