Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call from the young woman's sister in Belfast brought them here. She called to say that in Ulster's unfashionable ghettos the sound of trashcan lid on pavement could be heard again. Joe McDonnell (14 years, handgun possession) had died at the Long Kesh prison after 54 days without food...
DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which he sold off individually; in Los Angeles...
...Neill of the New York Daily News. O'Neill then had to get rid of one of his flashiest young columnists, Michael Daly. Like Janet Cooke of the Post, with her nonexistent eight-year-old dope addict, Daly lengthily quoted by name an English soldier in Belfast who turned out not to exist. The point should be well made by now: it may sometimes be necessary to use a fictitious name to protect an endangered source, but the source should be real and the right name known to the editor. Editors should be particularly suspicious whenever the quotes...
...terse announcement that Raymond McCreesh, 24, an inmate of the Maze Prison, had become the third Irish Republican Army hunger striker this month to take "his own life by refusing food and medical intervention," as the British government officially put it. Then came the rioting through Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry as women banged dustbin lids in the early morning darkness and gangs of youthful I.R.A. sympathizers attacked army and police patrols with stones and fire bombs. At week's end the grim cycle began all over again as Patrick O'Hara, 24, became the fourth hunger...
Filed from Northern Ireland, the column had the vivid detail and emotional wallop that readers of the New York Daily News had come to expect from Michael Daly. Titled "On the Streets of Belfast, the Children's War," it described how British soldiers had wounded a 15-year-old boy when they used real bullets instead of plastic ones to disperse youngsters throwing gasoline bombs. But Daly's account did not ring true at the London Daily Mail. After an investigation, the Daily Mail labeled the column "viciously anti-British" and "a pack of lies," with at least...