The head of Maynooth University Department of Anthropology, Mark Maguire, says security on its own isn’t a sufficient response to terror, and explains his research into how we humans react to such incidents    

It is nearly 17 years since terrorist zealots as evil — and as utterly wrong — as those who brought carnage to the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris on Wednesday inflicted an atrocity of similar scale, impact and immorality on the people of Omagh.

Norwegians by the thousands gathered at sombre memorials to the 77 people killed a year ago by far-right gunman Anders Behring Breivik to show his bloody rampage had done nothing to change their dedication to an open society.