Amnesty International says latest threat to child of journalist Patricia Devlin totally abhorrent Journalist Patricia Devlin. Picture by Mal McCann
Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty International
AMNESTY International has described another threat made to the child of journalist Patricia Devlin as totally abhorrent .
The Sunday World reporter received a message on Friday which said: Your baby will suffer very soon from rape very nice .
The threat was sent via her personal Facebook account.
In October 2019, Ms Devlin received a similar message in which the sender threatened to rape her newborn son.
It was signed with the name of neo-Nazi group Combat 18, which in the past has had links to loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.
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The Government has reacted with dismay to reports that the UK authorities are to ban prosecutions of former British soldiers who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
The Daily Telegraph and Times newspapers are reporting that the move is to be announced in the Queen s speech next week.
It is claimed the legislation would introduce a statute of limitations so there would be no prosecutions for any alleged crimes committed before the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
The reports say the ban would apply across the board, so would also include former members of the IRA and loyalist paramilitary organisations.
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Major blaze on Mourne Mountains probably deliberate Firefighters tackle a large gorse fire in the Slieve Donard. Picture by Conor Kinahan/Pacemaker Press.. 26 April, 2021 08:34
Photo taken with permission from the Twitter feed of @PatrickCorrigan showing a huge gorse fire spreading across the Mourne Mountains in Co Down. The fire in the Slieve Donard area has been ongoing since the early hours of Friday morning, with up to 60 firefighters and 12 appliances battling the blaze. Issue date: Saturday April 24, 2021.
A MASSIVE firefighting operation to tackle a major blaze on the Mourne Mountains was scaled back yesterday after a three day battle to bring it under control.
The call came from Jon McCourt, who is among survivors of historical institutional abuse.
Applications for compensation for historical institutional abuse only opened last year, four years after a public inquiry into the matter concluded in 2016.
A research report on mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland found many former residents suffered degrading treatment (Liam McBurney/PA)
Fiona Ryan, commissioner for survivors of institutional childhood abuse, warned a Stormont committee last week that it could take 10 years before all the payments are made.
Thousands of pregnant women and girls passed through mother and baby homes, where Stormont-commissioned academic research published in January found many suffered degrading treatment.