Reporting the Troubles 1

In some ways, I didn’t – don’t – want to remember any of it. Which is not to say that one ever forgets. I don’t know any journalist who worked through the Troubles, with its relentless cycle of murders and doorstepping the homes of the dead and funerals and yet more murders, who isn’t haunted from time to time by being an eyewitness to evil, to heartache and, yes, to courage too. GAIL WALKER , editor, Belfast Telegraph In Reporting the Troubles sixty-eight renowned journalists tell their stories