Teabags! Post-it notes! What would we do?

When we think of great inventions we assume it takes years of trial and error, hours of experimentations, tweaks and retests. And for the most part we would be right. After all it took Thomas Edison over 10,000 attempts to finally nail the light bulb.

LAST month Eamon Fitzgerald packed his things, said goodbye to his mum and dad and made his way to Sydney via Shannon, London and Kuala Lumpur. It will be some time before he returns and, in that, he wasn’t alone.

The family of a north Belfast teenager killed by two British soldiers 13 years ago have begun a new campaign to get the pair dismissed from the British army.