For the record, between 2012 and 2024, there were 25 decisions to prosecute conflict-related offences in Northern Ireland, six of which were against soldiers. As Arron Banks, the major funder of the Brexit leave campaign, said of his Remain opponents, a focus on “facts, facts, facts” does not connect with people emotionally. For those of us who worked to counter the amnesty, post-truth populism at times seemed impervious to pesky legal or empirical facts. It included a commitment to establish new human rights-compliant mechanisms to address the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. He has worked extensively on addressing the past in more than a dozen post-conflict or post-authoritarian societies including Northern Ireland

Source: The Irish Times March 24, 2026 16:19 UTC