In praise of empathy, a lamentably rare commodity

One Saturday evening in March 1988, in my office at the Northern Ireland newspaper that I edited at the time, I was sitting with my news editor watching the TV news. It was at the height of a 30-year period in Irish history euphemistically known as “the Troubles,” which had begun in the late 1960s with civil rights marches in protest at systemic discrimination against the minority Catholic and nationalist population by the Protestant and unionist majority and the local government.

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