Catholic teenager Seamus Gilmore was working at a petrol station on the Ballysillan Road in February 1973 when he was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries.
The names of 3,700 people who killed during the Troubles were read aloud in Dublin’s Unitarian Church today to mark the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.
Tour guide John Gibney says Ireland should recognise the events being marked over the coming years as vital parts of our heritage, and not just as opportunities for tourism.
The North’s Police Ombudsman has found serious holes in the investigation of the 1994 loyalist killings, which took place as Ireland played Italy in the USA World Cup.
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OUR NUMBERS HOSPITALISED with Covid-19 continue to fall and the rate of infection appears to be going in the right direction.
But trying to find a solution to how the virus and its variants enter Ireland from abroad continues to be a real challenge.
It was never going to be easy to set up a legal requirement to get arrivals into the country to pay for a two-week quarantine.
The list of designated countries has continued to grow as the Government revises its understanding of the danger spots.
Now, such is the influx of people that Minister Stephen Donnelly has announced a “pause” on bookings on a precautionary basis, in order to ramp up capacity in the system.
Donnelly confirmed yesterday evening that no bookings in mandatory hotel quarantine will be available until next Monday.
So the question is: Should the government cap incoming arrivals from countries on the mandatory quarantine list?
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