Why truth in the North is still an impossible target
A Truth Commission is out of the question because the dramatis personae of the Troubles are part of the system.
I suppose if you live long enough, you will see everything. I found it rich with irony that last Tuesday’s public report from the Eames-Bradley Consultative Group on the Past was delivered in the Europa hotel, Belfast.
For those of us who covered the Troubles, that hotel is a virtual photo gallery of memories. For me, these memories began on the night after internment was introduced in August 1971 when, with a group ...
