motor neurone disease. The film dealt with the difficult issue of the sexuality of people with disabilities.

Greengrass directed The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (1999), which told the story of Stephen Lawrence, a black youth whose murder was not properly investigated by the Metropolitan Police, and his mother's investigations, which led to accusations about institutional racism in the police.

Bloody Sunday (2002), depicted the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings of Irish anti-internment activists by British soldiers in an almost documentary style; it shared First Prize at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival with Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Bloody Sunday was inspired by Don Mullan's politically influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday (Wolfhound Press, 1997). Mullan was a schoolboy witness of the events of Bloody Sunday. The book is credited as a major catalystBy using this website, you consent to our use of cookies. For more information on cookies see our Cookie Policy.

Immigration hope

Sat, Jun 29, 2013, 01:00

Where the US Senate leads on immigration reform, will the more conservative House of Representatives now follow? Will the House support legislation to change the status of 11 million people – including tens of thousands undocumented Irish – from that of illegal immigrants to, in time, that of American citizens. The Senate has passed a wide ranging immigration bill that won the unanimous support of Democrats and some Republicans. However, in the House which Republicans control, the bill’s passage remains less certain. Nevertheless, the GOP cannot easily ignore the bipartisan support that exists for sweeping reform, both in the Senate and among the wider