A duty to report on the Ballymurphy inquest

Families of the six people who died on 9 August 1971 during the first day of the Ballymurphy Massacre hold images of those who died outside Laganside court in Belfast. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PAJust as politicians seem ready to abandon Northern Ireland (along with its governance, the backstop and the Good Friday agreement) to the vagaries of fate, seeing it as a troublesome impediment to reaching a Brexit conclusion, so too the full details of what happened during the Troubles look likely to b