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50 Years Ago – 16 May 1972

May 19, 2022 admin Belfast, Northern Ireland, Stanley McMaster, Trade Unions

16 May 1972 Trade union members in Hull said that they would ignore a court order telling them to stop

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50 Years Ago – 13 May 1972

May 17, 2022 admin Alec Douglas-Home, British Railways, Northern Ireland, Rhodesia, Trade Unions

13 May 1972 British Rail confirmed that its Sunday services wouldn’t operate following failure to reach agreement with the railway

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Northern Ireland Politician Christopher Stalford Dies at the Age of 39

February 20, 2022 admin Christopher Stalford, DUP, Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Ireland

Christopher Stalford, the DUP MLA for South Belfast, has died at the age of 39. He had represented the constituency

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50 Years Ago – 16 January 1972

January 16, 2022 admin Dingle Foot, Dom Mintoff, Ian Smith, IRA, Northern Ireland, Peter Carrington, Rhodesia

16 January 1972 Dom Mintoff (above photo), the Prime Minister of Malta, backed away from his previous demands that the

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50 Years Ago – 9 January 1972

January 9, 2022 admin Derek Ezra, IRA, Northern Ireland, Trade Unions

9 January 1972 26 people were hurt when the Queen’s Own Highlanders entered a house in Belfast which was booby

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50 Years Ago – 8 January 1972

January 8, 2022 admin 1972 Miners Strike, European Union, Northern Ireland, Peter Carrington, Trade Unions

8 January 1972 Lord Carrington (in photo above), the Secretary of State for Defence, cancelled off his engagements in Hong

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50 Years Ago – 6 January 1972

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 admin 50 Years Ago, Joe Gormley, Northern Ireland, Trade Unions

6 January 1972 Viewing figures showed that nearly two thirds of the population of Ulster had watched a controversial BBC

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50 Years Ago – 4 January 1972

January 4, 2022 admin Abel Muzorewa, Dom Mintoff, Malta, Northern Ireland, Rhodesia

4 January 1972 Abel Muzorewa (in photo above), a Methodist Bishop, condemned the British deal with Rhodesia and said that

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50 Years Ago – 3 January 1972

January 3, 2022 admin 50 Years Ago, IRA, Joe Gormley, Lawrence Daly, Malta, Northern Ireland

3 January 1972 Last-minute negotiations to prevent a miner’s strike continued, with discussions held between Derek Ezra, the Chairman of

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50 Years Ago – 1 January 1972

January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 admin Belfast, Brian Faulkner, Dom Mintoff, IRA, Malta, Northern Ireland

1 January 1972 Brian Faulkner, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, criticised the BBC for a controversial political programme which

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