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Search results for ‘Bloody Sunday’
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Calls for Karen Bradley to resign over Northern Ireland comments
Karen Bradley has been forced to apologise over comments she made about The Troubles.
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50 years after Selma, fight for ‘soul of America’ goes on
Barack Obama tells a crowd of thousands that police racism and the right to vote are still burning issues, 50 years after civil rights marchers were beaten and gassed in Alabama.
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Alex Thomson
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Gary Gibbon
Chilcot inquiry: Whitehall mutterings and political blame game
Is the Chilcot report into the Iraq war being delayed for political purposes or, more prosaically, just a bit disorganised but doing its best to be fair to witnesses?
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Police cuts: a stark warning from Northern Ireland
As the head of Northern Ireland’s Police Federation warns of “catastrophic” consequences from possible budget cuts of over £100m, Channel 4 News examines why NI’s police still occupy a unique role.
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‘Descent into terror’: Northern Ireland’s worst year
The arrest of Gerry Adams over Jean McConville’s death has put 1972 in the spotlight again. Channel 4 News speaks to author Susan McKay and revisits the worst year of the north of Ireland’s conflict.
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Paul Mason
Engaged with society and gripping: Laure Prouvost scoops the 2013 Turner Prize
I have to admit my “pretentious radar” was fully illuminated going into this exhibition. But it has been well and truly jammed by the work itself.
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Laure Prouvost wins the 2013 Turner Prize
French-born artist Laure Prouvost wins the 2013 Turner Prize for contemporary art for her video installation Wantee.
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‘End Troubles prosecution’ – Stormont’s chief legal adviser
Northern Ireland’s attorney general calls for an end to prosecutions for crimes committed during the conflict. But politicians on both sides condemn the move, saying it would not ease resolution.
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Celibacy and Catholicism: the end of the affair?
As the Catholic church copes with the aftermath of another sex scandal – this time involving Cardinal O’Brien, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric – the celibacy of priests is back up for debate.
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Alex Thomson
The past on trial: the charge sheet
Tragedy follows scandal – yet our police, our armed services, and our judiciary learn nothing. If they did, it would not happen over and over again, would it?
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Q&A: Enquiring into inquiries
Hardly a month goes by before someone asks for another public inquiry. Channel 4 News asks: what’s the point?
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Alex Thomson
A British disease?
When the heat’s on, the disaster’s recent, the record shows that the British state cannot be relied upon to do its job – protect and provide justice for the victims and their families.
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Hillsborough: What we have overlooked
Political Correspondent Michael Crick considers why the police may have been slow to react as Liverpool fans were crushed to death and why it is not only The Sun which is guilty of mis-reporting.
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Should David Cameron apologise for Hillsborough?
Wednesday’s publication of documents relating to the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy poses a dilemma for David Cameron: should he apologise and risk being seen as trying to hog the limelight?
