Sport
Paul Rouse: How class and power fed the lies that buried the truth of Hillsborough
On April 15, 1989, a live broadcast of a football match became a live broadcast of mass death, writes historian Paul Rouse in his new book
On April 15, 1989, in homes and in pubs all across Ireland, people sat down to watch the semi-final of the FA Cup. It was a fine spring afternoon, not ordinarily one for sitting in front of the television. But this was different: the number of live soccer matches shown on television that year in Ireland could more or less be counted on the fingers of one hand. So this was a rare treat: Liverpool ...
