What a terrible fate to befall the children of Sandy Hook School in Connecticut. Where society’s youngest are being made ready for the life that awaits them the act of depriving them of life itself is mercilessly inflicted. While what happened at Columbine High in 1999 should never be depreciated, Sandy Hook seems so much worse. The victims tended to be younger and more helpless. Here in Europe it has parallels with the Dunblane Primary School massacre in Scotland in 1996.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
