Just a few days after a gunman fired a number of pictures right into a police detective on this busy market city six weeks in the past, Pauline Harte’s younger son got here dwelling and requested her, “Whose aspect are we on?”
“We don’t choose sides,” Ms. Harte mentioned she informed him, repeating a message she has carried along with her since she was 19 years previous, and misplaced her leg to a lethal automobile bomb planted in Omagh in 1998 by a splinter group of the Irish Republican Military.
Twenty-five years after the Good Friday Settlement ended the…