The division of the island is on the front burner again as many nationalists and republicans demand a border poll as allowed in the Good Friday Agreement.
On this day, March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands started his 66-day hunger strike, protesting the end to “political prisoner” status for IRA prisoners, which eventually took his life.
Roy Greenslade, a former Daily Mirror editor, a London Times senior editor and later The Guardian media editor, has revealed his secret support for the IRA during The Troubles. He also secretly wrote a column for the IRA newspaper, An Phoblacht, during the period.
Christine Connor was sentenced to 20 years last year for attempted murder with a pipe bomb, but her sentence was increased to 25 years following an appeal by the Northern Ireland Director of Public Prosecutions.
"Families, particularly those who saw loved ones murdered by British crown forces, directly or in collusion with loyalists, were stonewalled in their search for justice."
