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fromIrish Independent
1 day ago

The Indo Daily: 50 years on: The 'passion' kidnapping of Tiede Herrema and the IRA's Bonnie and Clyde

Eddie Gallagher and Marian Coyle kidnapped Dutch industrialist Dr Tiede Herrema in Limerick to force prisoner releases, holding him 36 days before his release unharmed.
fromIndependent
3 weeks ago

'David Trimble said it was a wonderful day... I was sure he meant Bloody Sunday': Mary McAleese on her changing feelings for unionist leader

A Sunday in January 1972 marked one of the blackest days of the Troubles. On the penultimate day of the month, thousands of civil rights demonstrators took to the streets of Derry. The protest had been banned by the Stormont government and there was a heavy presence of soldiers and ­police officers. After skirmishes between ­local youths and the British army - soldiers moved in to make arrests. Shortly ­afterwards, members of the Parachute Regiment began to open fire.
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fromIndependent
3 months ago

'I am passionate about this work' - The man on a mission to locate the bodies of the last of the Disappeared

Eamonn Henry is leading investigations to locate the bodies of four men murdered during the Troubles.
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