|
|
Article: FOCUS A SORRY AFFAIR: The second battle of Bloody Sunday An official apology for the killings of 26 years ago might satisfy Dublin, but the IRA will ensure that the memory never goes away, says Kevin Myers
- Article from:
- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 25, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1998 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
`THEY haven't gone away, you know," Gerry Adams said infamously
of the IRA during the first ceasefire just over two years ago. The
IRA is not the only thing not to have gone away in Northern
Ireland, which over the past 30 years has resembled the Miocene age
as it has thrown up huge mountain ranges of granite historical fact
and alps of irreducible grievance.
Standing above all those peaks remains the Everest of Northern
Ireland's travails, the one which will not go away, you know, and
which is unavoidable from whichever angle one views the past
quarter of a century in the province: Bloody Sunday.
As the 26th anniversary of the shootings in Londonderry on Jan
30, 1972 approaches, the ...