Tom Kelly: Digging up the past has uncovered inconvenient truths

Tom Kelly

Willie Frazer is dead. In normal circumstances, as I have written before about Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley, I tend to leave the dead six feet under with their deeds interred with them.

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