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Day the Troubles began
Violence at a civil rights march in Londonderry on 5 October 1968 sparks a sequence of events that mark the beginning of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Organiser Eamonn McCann, historian Simon Price, retired police constable Jim McMullan and Austin Currie (then a Nationalist MP in the parliament of Northern Ireland) offer their opinions on the events of the day and their influence on what was to follow in Northern Ireland.
