Monday, 26 October 2009

Omagh Bomb Father receives recognition


OMAGH BOMB FATHER RECEIVES AWARD IN SPAIN

Michael Gallagher who's 21 year old son Adrian who died in the Omagh Bomb is to receive an International award in recognition for the work he has done for victims of terrorism at home and around the world. The ceremony it to take place in Madrid on Wednesday the 28th October 2009.
He received the news in a letter last June which stated: the board of Trustees of San Pablo Ceu University Madrid and the International Center for Victims of Terrorism unanimously agreed to award Mr. Gallagher the International award for Memory, Dignity and Justice for the following reasons in consideration of his personal commitment to the cause of victims of terrorism and defending freedom anywhere in the world where there's terrorist violence, specially in Northern Ireland.

Speaking yesterday Mr. Gallagher said this is a great honour not just for myself but for all those families who have had the courage to stand up and demand justice over many difficult years, we thank Spain for there support and encouragement
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Sunday, 20 September 2009

Amazing stories



Some amazing stories are appearing on Sharedtroubles.net

Read about the Shankill Butchers


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Saturday, 19 September 2009

UDR Story



"I felt as frightened as helpless as a child; the shadows had returned to fill my mind again. I lay in the soft warm comfort of my wife’s embrace, yet I felt alone. I felt as if I was I the only one in the world in this disparate state. I needed to get some help, but from whom, from where? When the phantoms came, me the so called “hard man”, a man that would shoot a man dead without as much as a flicker of emotion in my face, would instantly transform into a quivering fearful defenceless child."
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Friday, 11 September 2009

Sunday Tribune



Suzanne Breen wrote an excellent feature on Sharedtroubles in the Sunday Tribune


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Monday, 7 September 2009

Belfast Telegraph


Belfast Telegraph


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Thursday, 3 September 2009

IRA blanketman Anthony McIntyre


Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process.
Read a story supplied by Anthony McIntyre
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The human cost of the Troubles


Read the harrowing story of a RUC widow's horrible shock
http://www.sharedtroubles.net/storydetail.php?story_id=1107
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