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BRIGID HUGHES, whose husband Anthony was shot dead in an SAS ambush, celebrated today after winning a court case over the inadequate funding for inquests into historical killings in Northern Ireland.
Ms Hughes had challenged the failure of Northern Ireland’s Executive Office, Department of Justice and Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley to stump up enough money to prevent delays to such inquests.
Her husband Anthony was killed in May 1987 in the crossfire between British troops and the IRA at a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Co Armagh. Eight IRA members also died.
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
