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Many civic buildings across Northern Ireland lit up red last night (Saturday) to mark the European Day for Innocent Victims of Terrorism, offering what the TUV leader described as a “welcome corrective” to the narrative of political figures who excuse or glorify terrorists.

Earlier in the week at a Victims’ Day event at Stormont, Tanya Williams-Powell, one of the granddaughters of Thomas Niedermayer, who in 1973 was abducted from his home by the IRA, shared her testimony.

Mary Hornsey, whose son Paul who was murdered in 1979 along with Lord Mountbatten in a PIRA explosion onboard the boat they were in, and Paul Wilson, whose father Senator Paddy Wilson was murdered by the UFF in 1973, also spoke.

Lighting up buildings for Victims’ Day is ‘welcome corrective’ to the narrative of political figures who excuse or glorify terrorists: Jim Allister