It was 30 years ago but still the stories of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland are being told and transcribed… the tales of British Paratroopers with high-powered rifles, the image of a priest waving a white handkerchief, the confusion, the fear, the Catholic teenagers lying dead in the street. These stories are being told today at a tribunal looking into the events of Bloody Sunday. The inquiry is costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Many Protestants say fixing on the past, raising the dead, has a human cost too: preventing Northern Ireland from moving on beyond sectarian violence. One Irish newspaper reflects back on Bloody Sunday as “September 11th” for Northern Ireland, the time when everything changed.
Guests:
Eamon McCann, writer and journalist
Michael McKinney, Bloody Sunday Trust
and William Hay, Derry City Councilman and DUP representative to the Northern Ireland Assembly