Parents of toddler killed by IRA bomb braced for 50th anniversary service today

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Subscribe              Dec 12, 2021           Top Stories A round up of the most popular news stories this week.           Parents of toddler killed by IRA bomb braced for 50th anniversary service today           The elderly parents of a toddler killed by a no-warning IRA bomb are bracing themselves for an emotional service today marking fifty years since the loss of their son Colin.                 'Santa, can I have a new heart please?' Call for organ donors to help patients like Daithi   The health authorities have issued a message to the public at large to consider registering as an organ donor.           Attitude to NI centenary 'shows Sinn Fein just does not recognise Britishness'   Veteran unionist Sir Reg Empey has said the lack of funding for any centenary events from the Department for Communities will just add to unionists' sense that Sinn Fein "don't really recognise Britishness at all".           Relatives of Troubles victims hold protests in Belfast over legacy plans   Relatives of Troubles victims have held protests at Stormont and police headquarters to voice opposition to controversial plans to end prosecutions linked to the conflict.           Boy dies after road collision near Glenavy   A 12-year-old boy has died after a road collision involving a van and a pedestrian near Glenavy.           Owen Polley: IRC reports have little value, but maybe that is the point   You would be forgiven for having forgotten, but in 2015 Stormont experienced another one of its regular crises.           Cleric facing sanctions over 'endorsing a homosexual relationship'   A Presbyterian minister in Dublin is facing possible sanctions from the denomination for "endorsing a homosexual relationship".           'I was beaten out of estate with a baseball bat for being a Protestant'   A Co Armagh man who was beaten up and issued a death threat for living in a "republican estate" in south Armagh says he can't forget his brutal ordeal.           'PSNI must brand baseball attack as sectarian hate crime'   A south Armagh community worker has claimed the PSNI should confirm that a paramilitary style attack on a young man was a sectarian hate incident - and publicly acknowledge that he was issued with a death threat.                 View more news

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