Lelia Doolan tells Pádraic Killeen how her remarkable documentary on Bernadette Devlin McAliskey has lessons for today’s protest movements.

TODAY, as we mark the 40th anniversary of that terrible indictment of the North’s then corrupted democracy — the Battle of the Bogside — it is important to remember that many of the world’s population still live in a society where they have little or no say in how that society is run or who runs it.

FORMER Taoiseach Jack Lynch was, as this newspaper editorialised upon his death, “a charismatic leader, political icon and statesman”.

A museum cataloguing the Troubles era in Derry is to open with the help of grant aid from the Government, it was confirmed today.

Danny Morrisson