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Index
Dedication
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Duke Street, Derry, 5 October 1968
How an ex-B Special owes his life to a lady on the Falls Road
The night Paisley said I worked for the Papist Broadcasting Corporation
The ‘honey-trap’ killings of three Scottish soldiers
An Irish Setter, a Palestinian hijacker, Derry and me
The crews of old
Bloody Sunday
‘Get that Irish bitch off the air or someone else will’
Uncle Ted
Were the murderers in the room?
The little boy who witnessed an attempt on a neighbour’s life
The Bloody Friday survivors who inspired me
The day the army missed the IRA’s top commander
When Edward Heath branded Paisley ‘a disloyalist’
How Paisley turned the jeers to cheers for me
My night with a loyalist drag queen and the ‘beast from hell’
An almost fatal knockout
The broken spectacles that trapped a Miami Showband killer
The beginning of 1976
‘Why does there have to be bad people in the world? My daddy was good.’
Hidden in the ashes – my terrible reminder of La Mon
The day the IRA killed Lord Mountbatten, two teenagers, an elderly woman and eighteen soldiers
Gunned down at a football match
The murder of my neighbour, Robert Bradford MP
‘Daddy won’t get up’ – murder under a Christmas tree
The dirty little secret and the tears of a cub reporter
Taking flight with Margaret Thatcher
The Maze jailbreak
The massacre at Darkley – and the nature of certainty
IRA war against border Protestants
Death on my doorstep
‘We’ll get you next time, Campbell’
Martin McGuinness in 1986
The Enniskillen Remembrance Day bombing
Knocking doors and intruding on grief
The lasting impact of the Troubles on my life
Taking cover during Michael Stone’s attack at Milltown
Remembering Jillian Johnston
I still get flashbacks to ‘the corporals’ killings’
The Gibraltar shootings: taking on the censors
My brushes with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles
The killing I’ll never forget
Sean Graham’s, Ormeau Road, 1992
The day the UVF told me, ‘We bombed Dublin and Monaghan’
An Irish reporter in the English pack
Torment in a country graveyard
Ten funerals in one working week
‘The safest place to be was on the pitch’
The Chinook air tragedy
David Trimble – the unlikely peacemaker
Clinton’s men tried to arrest me under the Christmas lights
The five ‘P O’Neills’ who briefed me about the IRA
How Drumcree changed my home town
A birthday present for Billy Wright
George Mitchell – the man who lit up the peace process
We were uniquely privileged to do this work
An epitaph of sorts
Good Friday – a day and night like no other
Omagh remembered
And then there was Omagh
A touch of magic as Hume and Trimble collect their Nobel Peace Prize
Rosemary Nelson’s last interview
Chronicling the lost lives of the Troubles
The tears of Martin McGuinness’s mother
The murder of Martin O’Hagan
I could see the picture unfold before it happened
Bringing Gerard Evans home to his mother
My meeting with the woman twice widowed by the UVF
Missing the obvious
Remembering the victims in the postscript of peace
Acknowledgements
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