Yikes.

Dublin Bus investigating footage of man hanging onto back of moving bus (Breaking News)

Davenant tweetz:

Children near a shrine to the dead, Derry in the 1970s by Akihiko Okamura. He took a remarkable and unsettling series of photos of the Troubles.

Does anyone know who these children were and whether they are still in Derry?

Akihiko Okamura?

From top: James Wray, William McKinney; statement from DPP of Northern Ireland

“It has been concluded that there is sufficient available evidence to prosecute one former soldier, Soldier F, for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney; and for the attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O’Donnell.

“In respect of the other 18 suspects, including 16 former soldiers and two alleged Official IRA members, it has been concluded that the available evidence is insufficient to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction.”

The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland, Stephen Herron, this morning.

Pic via Judith Hill

Earlier: Meanwhile, In Derry

UPDATE:

This morning…

William McKinney’s brother, Mickey McKinney said:

“We’d like to remind everyone that no prosecution or, if it comes to it, no conviction, does not mean ‘not guilty’.

“It does not mean that no crime was committed, it does not mean that those soldiers acted in a dignified and appropriate way.

“It simply means that if these crimes had been investigated properly when they happened and evidence gathered at the time then the outcome would have been different.

“We know that Lord Saville’s report’s findings on the actions of soldiers that day, that all the casualties were either intended targets of the soldiers or the results of shots fired indiscriminately at people.

“That no soliders fired in response to attacks or threatened attacks, that no soldiers fired in a state of panic, and that soldiers opened fire either in the belief that no one, an area toward which they respectively fired, was posing a threat or causing death or serious injury… or not anyone there was posing such a threat.

“These are not the sort of comments levelled at innocent people.

“The passage of time makes charges difficult in this case and in other cases. But the passage of time should not be used as a form of blanket immunity to block proper investigations.”

William McKinney, an amateur photographer, was aged 27 and engaged to be married when he was killed at the civil rights march on January 30, 1972.

He was at the Bloody Sunday march to capture it on a camera he received as a Christmas present. The Derry Journal printer was shot while he ran for cover.

James Wray was 22 and also engaged to be married when he died.

He and his family attended the march after going to mass.

James, who worked in a bar and a dancehall, was also shot while he ran for cover.

The Saville report found James was shot twice in the back and that the second shot was probably fired as he lay wounded.

Bloody Sunday: The Victims (BBC)

UPDATE:

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Roos Demol

Roos Demol, who is originally from Belgium and has been living in Ireland since 1998, is an intercultural facilitator and blogs on immigrantinirelad.com.

At the weekend, she tweeted a story about a boy from Burundi who is now facing deportation.

Ms Demol, who is based in Cork, finished the story by asking for help.

She tweeted:

Roos Demol

This morning.

Families of the victims of Bloody Sunday are marching to a city centre hotel where 17 former British soldiers will hear if they are to be prosecuted for killing 13 innocent civil rights demonstrators on January 30, 1972.

More as we get it.

Meanwhile…

In fairness.

Eamonn Kelly (above) and his new comedy novel “When Things Were Great!” (top)

‘Oisín Landers returns home to Ireland after 20 years to find the country in the grip of an uncharacteristic economic boom. Everything has changed, except Mick Lowry’s Bar, which has remained frozen in time, in a deep sepia hue, inspiring Oisín to a whole new depression similar to the one that caused him to emigrate in the first place. How will Oisín survive the mental ravages of small town Ireland?’

Writer and journalist (and Broadsheet columnist) Eamonn Kelly‘s new novel “When Things Were Great!”, a comedy set in the final days of boomtime Ireland, is now available for pre-order [at link below] and will be released on St Patrick’s Day March 17.

Eamonn writes:

The novel is very much in keeping with my writing for Broadsheet, the plot featuring a satirical take on Irish political corruption in a book that is a generally silly take on small town Irish life during the late-lamented boom.

The title comes from the oft-heard complaint from young people that us older crowd had the best of times, the novel setting out to show that times in Ireland tend to be equally absurd in the long run…

Pre-order “When Things Were Great!” here.

Eamonn Kelly

Previously: Eamonn Kelly on Broadsheet

 

A diverting inisight into the way colour in movie posters is used to communicate with the desired audiences.

James Verdesoto of Indika Entertainment Advertising explains how white backgrounds are used for comedy, blue for action thrillers, shadows indicate secondary characters, yellow is the colour of independent film and so on.

laughingsquid/vanityfair

Last night.

Washington DC.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar gives an address at an American Ireland Funds special dinner celebrating ‘Visionary Women’.

Mr Varadkar will today meet US president Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence….

The Taoiseach said that an existing invite for President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to visit Ireland still stands.

Mr Varadkar’s partner Matt Barrett will accompany him when he meets Mr Pence today.

Mr Pence has been criticised in the past for his conservative views on LGBT rights, and last year there was much focus on his meeting with the Taoiseach.

Taoiseach and Trump to discuss Brexit, immigration and US-Irish relations (RTÉ)

Meanwhile…

Visionary women, you say?

DUP leader Arlene Foster at the dinner with the Taoiseach.

Meanwhile…

*cough*

Pics: Twitter/RTÉ

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