Sunday, Bloody Sunday.Twenty-nine years after the fact, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair is attempting to discern exactly what happened in Derry, Northern Ireland, on "Bloody Sunday" in 1972; 14 people were killed and 14 injured when British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians at a civil rights march. Blair called for the inquiry in 1998, and since its onset this spring more than 1,500 civilians, members of the clergy, journalists, photographers, and soldiers have testified. Witness Edward Daly, a curate CURATE, eccl. law. One who represents the incumbent of a church, person, or20 vicar, and takes care of the church, and performs divine service in his stead. at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry at the time, said, "The inquiry means a great deal to the families of those who died and those who were wounded. The events of that day have haunted me for all these years." The hearings are open to the public, with reserved seating for families of the victims and a spillover spill·o·ver n. 1. The act or an instance of spilling over. 2. An amount or quantity spilled over. 3. A side effect arising from or as if from an unpredicted source: site for 900 more people at the nearby Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. Cinema, where they can watch the hearings via closed-circuit television. |
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