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Anthony McIntyre: Truth, recrimination and the value of a little compassion

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13.01.2026

Just into the new year, Denis Bradley, writing in this paper, raised a matter which has defied resolution throughout many old years.

Truth, despite acquiring a word association with reconciliation, is a concept which in the north has long been used for something entirely different – recrimination.

Our truth about you, but not your truth about us.

Denis Bradley, alert to this, in suggesting that compassion should place limitations on clarity, invites his readers to reconsider the value of truth recovery in its most expansive form.

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