It's that time of year when newspaper columnists of a leftwards bent and Republicans of a black tinge like to recall the death of Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in 1981 while in prison.
I prefer to recall some of the 65 or so other victims who died at this time, 36 killed by the IRA, the people who didn't have 100,000 turn out for their funerals.
There were Eric and Desmond Guiney, a milkman and his fourteen year old son, killed when a mob attacked their milk lorry on 7th May on the ...
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