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In some cases, parents might disapprove: Belfast was dangerous enough already; to sign on as a paramilitary was simply tempting fate. Occasionally a young IRA gunman would go out on a sniper mission, only to round a corner and bump smack into his own mother. Unfazed by the assault rifle in his hands, she would drag him home by the ear.
— Jun 30, 2026 07:47PM
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'I always got the sense that he lived a large part of his life in that windowsill, she recalled. 'He couldn't commit to either jump out and end it all or jump back in and start really living.'
— Jul 04, 2026 02:55AM
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“Hughes lay there, frozen. Then a spike impaled the bags on the other side of him. Now he decided he would just stand up and shout, just surrender, because to lie still would be suicide. If the spike came down again, it would surely kill him. What a ridiculous way to die, harpooned in the back of a dustbin lorry, covered in sawdust, with an orange in your mouth.”
— Jul 01, 2026 04:58AM
“Hughes lay there, frozen. Then a spike impaled the bags on the other side of him. Now he decided he would just stand up and shout, just surrender, because to lie still would be suicide. If the spike came down again, it would surely kill him. What a ridiculous way to die, harpooned in the back of a dustbin lorry, covered in sawdust, with an orange in your mouth.”
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For years, lan Paisley had been exhorting his Protestant brethren to seek out and expel Catholics who lived among them. 'You people of the Shankill Road, what's wrong with you?' he would bellow. 'Number 425 Shankill Road - do you know who lives there? Pope's men, that's who!' This was retail ethnic cleansing: Paisley would reel off addresses… They were 'Papishers', agents of Rome, and they must be driven out.
— Jun 29, 2026 05:46AM