The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman's report is out tomorrow morning (21/1/7).

This is a report on one single unit of the RUC/PSNI, the police service in Northern Ireland. It will reveal police involvement in 18 murders of non-unionists; it will apparently also reveal that several of the police officers involved are still serving.

(Incidentally, someone talked about Irish fishermen selling boats and nets, while Scots fishermen didn't. I'd like to point out that this isn't comparing like with like. Irish fishermen on the west coast used currachs
- tarred canvas rowing boats that were rowed out into the broad Atlantic, requiring enormous strength and fitness. They were the boats of the very poor. Scots fishermen had wooden sailboats - a very different proposition. And while it is also true that there were famines in Scotland, there was not the devastating series of famine after famine for over a decade that struck Ireland in the 1840s to 1850s. Oh, by the way, if you'd like to hear contemporary accounts - voiced by modern actors - Cathal Poirtear's series Famine Echoes
is being repeated on RTE Radio and the latest programme is available for download.)