Nine-year-old Patrick Rooney loved horror movies and Hallowe’en and wanted to be a priest when he grew up. Instead, on 15th August 1969, he became the first child killed as a result of the ‘Troubles’ - one of approximately 190 children who would die in the conflict in Northern Ireland.
In their book, Children of the Troubles, broadcaster Joe Duffy and journalist Freya McClements tell the previously untold story of Northern Ireland’s lost children. They discuss the tragic stories of these lost young lives, many of them children who have never been publicly acknowledged as victims of the Troubles, with Martin Doyle of the Irish Times.
Recorded at Printworks, Dublin Castle, on 20th October 2019
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