Wednesday, 6 January 2016

New Year: Same old story...

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So, it’s a new year and it's also an election year in both jurisdictions of this little island.  Politicians on both sides of the borde...

Injured On That Day

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The following is a piece I wrote, a few years ago, for a book ('Injured On That Day') published by the WAVE Trauma Centre which des...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

Will we finally set Barabbas free?

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Last week marked the 21 st Anniversary of the Ceasefire declared by the Combined Loyalist Military Command.   It was heralded as an end t...
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Monday, 5 October 2015

Stormont: a theatre of bitter disappointments

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In one instant in January 1994 my life was changed forever.   Up until that moment I had lived relatively unscathed by the violence that ha...
Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Changing the Definition of our Victims: who for and why?

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Yesterday (1 st September) marked the first full day in the job for the new Victims Commissioner, Judith Thompson.  There is no doubt that...
Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Ceasefire: 21 years on - The key to the door?

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31 st August was marked again yesterday in the Belfast Telegraph with a welcome piece about a group of young people who have turned 2...
Friday, 24 July 2015

A warm welcome to our new Victims Commissioner: You can't always get what you want... but you might get what you need.

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I would like to thank the oFM/dFM for finally agreeing on a new Commissioner for Victims and Survivors .  It has been over a year sinc...