
Malachi O'Doherty
Columnist at Belfast Telegraph
Author, journalist, photographer, irritant. Pronouns: I and Me.
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1 week ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty
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2 weeks ago |
irishpost.com | Malachi O'Doherty
THE great historian ATQ Stewart, in The Narrow Ground, compared the violence in Belfast in 1970 to the 19th century crashing up through the cobbles. Andrew Boyd wrote Holy War In Belfast before the violence started and it was published to meet huge enthusiastic demand, just as we were getting familiar with the sound of gunfire in the night. What both books reminded us of was that sectarian division, such as was destroying the city, had torn Belfast apart before, indeed before most of us were born.
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2 weeks ago |
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Malachi O'Doherty
Young people labelled by society as criminals and delinquents will tend to live out what others expect of them, feeling other options closed to them because of their profilesI don’t believe the crimes and sins of young people should follow them through life. Here’s what a probation officer once told me: if a young man can get through his teens without being arrested, killed in a car crash or kneecapped, then there is a chance for him. Most of them wise up in their 20s.
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3 weeks ago |
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4 weeks ago |
irishpost.com | Malachi O'Doherty
IF YOU travel around some areas of Belfast you’ll see wall murals celebrating the IRA and other paramilitary groups. They provide one of the simplest ways of letting you know whether you are in a nationalist or a loyalist area. You may feel safer in one than the other. Clearly some people are concerned to preserve a memory of the troubled period, basically the last thirty years of the last century, the destruction and the thousands killed.
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