The new secretary of state for Northern Ireland has been warned she will need to "be very brave" and "stand up to Dublin" in the weeks ahead by the DUP MP Ian Paisley.
Billy Bingham's boys made it all the way to the quarter-finals of the World Cup, Barry McGuigan was on the rise, Alex Higgins was the king of snooker and Irish League grounds were packed to the rafters.
Cars lined the road to Maghera outside Fortwilliam Park in Tobermore as hundreds of supporters finally got the chance to see soccer legend George Best turnout for the local side back in 1984.
The row over the Barry McElduff video has obscured the fact that Sinn Fein still denies the IRA carried out the Kingsmills massacre, victims' supporters say.
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