The phrase leaps out at their interviewer during Children of the Troubles (RTÉ One, Monday, 9.35pm), Joe Duffy, a coining of their grieving father. “It’s good to remember the children,” Macauley nods. One special effect superimposes the names of slain children on the streets of Irish cities, like GPS points on a map of pain. In a Belfast cemetery, where roughly half of the children killed during the Troubles are buried, and friends aged 4½ and 6½, huddle together in a family plot, the names cluster and overlap becoming too thick to read. “None of the 186 children of the Troubles deserved to die,” Duffy concludes.

Source: The Irish Times November 04, 2019 22:41 UTC