When Trevor McDonald reported from the North at the height of the Troubles, there was one assignment he always wanted to avoid. The republican newspaper An Phoblacht came out on a Saturday evening and the only way of getting it early was to visit a rowdy republican pub in west Belfast.
“The British journalists used to gather in the Europa Hotel and toss coins to see who would go,” McDonald recalls. “One night I lost...
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