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November December 1994 Issue

The First Word: And Now the Good News…

By Niall O’Dowd, Founding Publisher
November/December 1994

November 23, 1994 by Leave a Comment

Belfast: "We need a solution the dead can live with," is how one Belfast resident, in a uniquely Irish way, described the prospects for long-term peace after the recent events in Northern Ireland that shook the world. His words were not such a paradox as they may seem. The graves of the over 3,000 dead stand as mute testament to the suffering on all sides that the Long War of … [Read more...] about The First Word: And Now the Good News…

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