“That’s the only way I can put,” he said “they sleep with the victims.”
I was struck by Michael D Higgins’ interview with the BBC’s Fergal Keane: He said he could not ask the families of victims to put the past behind them. Society could not afford to wipe out the memory of violence, he said. “I think that there is very significant work to do,” he said. “Affecting a kind of amnesia is of no value to you. You are better to honestly deal with the facts that are standing behind you as …