Matthew Biggerstaff: Fundraiser launched for family of popular 21-year-old who died in Tandragee factory incident
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05 August, 2021 00:59
THE Irish News (July 21) reported that Colm Eastwood believes the Dublin government should establish a citizens’ assembly to discuss Ireland’s constitutional future regarding a united Ireland. In the same report it was claimed “that thousands of GAA members from northern counties have written to the taoiseach, Micheál Martin, urging him to kick start conversations about an agreed shared Ireland. The open letter to Mr Martin was signed by Gaels in counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Derry, Armagh and Tyrone.”
I would have my doubts that thousands of GAA members would have written to Micheál Martin, I would be satisfied that a few high-ranking establishment-prone GAA officials may have written to him.
Calls for a renewed investigation into the murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan have been shared as the 20th anniversary of his death approaches.
O’Hagan (pictured) was shot dead as he walked home from an evening out with his wife in Lurgan, Co Armagh, on 28 September 2001.
He was the first journalist killed by paramilitaries since the Northern Ireland Troubles erupted in 1969 and was murdered after exposing the actions of Loyalist gangsters.
He was the only journalist to have been murdered on British soil for 18 years until Lyra McKee was fatally shot while covering riots in Belfast in 2019.