Professor Siobhan O’Neill, who is the north’s mental health champion has requested the Independent Review of Education, as a matter of urgency, to end academic selection using transfer tests (‘Review must show way for transfer tests change’).
I was very disturbed to read in the media statement of the Police Ombudsman into the case of four young men who in 1979 made false confessions to the police the following terminology: “…a number of punishment shootings… implicated them in a punishment shooting…”.
The decision by the BBC to axe live coverage of the Twelfth parades is to be welcomed by all right thinking people, and it is a decision which should have been taken a long time ago.
In Brian Feeney’s article (May 30), I was delighted to hear that Colin Harvey has had a eureka moment and has finally recognised the complexity of the unification journey, rather than the fantasy island stuff that has been churned out in the recent past.
Reginald Maudling, Britiain’s Home Secretary in the Ted Heath Tory government declared, as he stepped aboard an aeroplane after his first visit to the north of Ireland in 1970: “For God’s sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.”