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TOP lawyer Michael Mansfield QC helped bereaved families relaunch a campaign for justice last night against the British army.
Five people, including three teenagers and a Catholic priest, were shot dead by British snipers at Springhill estate, Belfast, in 1972.
Forty-seven years later their relatives gathered at the Culturlann community centre on Falls Road to demand answers.
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Thousands strike to ‘save hostages and stop military escalation’ in Gaza
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