Identification In Belfast
(I.R.A. Bombing) The British Army now carries two rifles, one with rubber rabbit-pellets for children, the other's of course for the Provisionals.... 'When they first showed me the boy, I thought oh good, it's not him because he's blonde I imagine his hair was singed dark by the bomb. He had nothing on him to identify him, except this box of joke trick matches; he liked to have them on him, even at mass. The police were unhurried and wonderful, they let me go on trying to strike a match... I just wouldn't stop you cling to anything I couldn't believe I couldn't light one match only joke matches... Then I knew he was Richard.'
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