In the village of Loughinisland in County Down, Northern Ireland, though, the night is enshrined in local memory for very different reasons. “I didn’t want to pretend to be somebody who knew the last word about the Troubles,” says Alex Gibney, director of No Stone Unturned, a new documentary about the Loughinisland killings. That may seem like a simple perspective, but it has a much bigger resonance both inside and outside of Northern Ireland. It transpires that Toman’s house had been the target of a UVF bomb attack the year before the pub killings. People say: ‘We have peace in Northern Ireland now, why rake up the past?’ But, when you speak to the relatives and the survivors, you realise that the past is the present.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2017 12:02 UTC