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'Normal for Northern Ireland’ should not dull us to Troubles abuses
THIRTY years after they ended, the capacity of Northern Ireland’s Troubles to shock us should probably have reached its limits by now. Alas, the past bleeds into the present and two recent court cases, reported by the assiduous Belfast media, caught my eye …