Laurence and Martina Hayes, the couple killed in Friday’s terror attack in Tunisia, had put down roots in the very heart of Athlone.

Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six wrongly convicted for bombings that killed 21 people and injured a further 182 in 1974, is supporting a petition to reopen the case.

IT IS when Paddy Hill reenacts the violence of the police — who tried to force him to confess to one of the most deadly terrorist bombings in Britain — that he is most alarming.

A Belfast man who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings accepted undisclosed libel damages today over a suggestion that there were grounds to believe he was guilty.

The mother of a man beaten to death by republicans today broke down as she appealed for justice.

One of the Birmingham Six has vowed to launch legal action against the British Government unless he gets a public apology.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams yesterday expressed his regrets about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the huge loss of life and injuries they inflicted.

A memorial service is taking place today to mark the 30th anniversary of one of mainland Britain's worst terrorist atrocities.

PADDY HILL, wrongly imprisoned for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombing, remains an intensely bitter man because he never got an official apology.