
Belfast
40 years since surviving a bomb attack in Castlederg, I still want justice
On the morning of Friday the 18th of July, 1986 at before 9am I was standing at the bridge in Castlederg, County Tyrone. A young-man just seventeen years old, enjoying my holiday from work. A very keen angler that had been fishing along the River Derg in the town that faithful morning and waiting on the footpath at the end of the bridge to be collected by my mother. The quietness and beauty of a summer morning with the burble of the river gently flowing, the occasional car passing and the...