He did wake sometimes and cry but Steve had always been good at

He did wake sometimes and cry, but Steve had always been good at soothing him.”
Soon after 9pm, there was a phone call at the bingo hall from Steve’s father saying the baby had breathing problems When Lisa phoned Steve he was hysterical “He kept saying ‘the baby’s not breathing.. I’ve bruised him trying to resuscitate him’ Even then he was making up his story. Then he just shouted ‘the baby’s dead!’.”
They were both taken in for questioning. Lisa was released after a couple of days but Steve was kept in. He wasn’t working and may have worried about how we’d manage.

They had separated only a few months before, a split caused partly by disappointment at not being able to have a child and partly because Steve had been drinking heavily. But they got back together and decided to try again and, almost immediately, Lisa found she was expecting “Steve changed his life He more or less stopped drinking,” she said. “He fed Steven, changed his nappies and cared for him a lot when I went to the shops or out with my Mam.”
But, within two months of baby Steven’s birth, Lisa fell pregnant again “This time it was quite different When I told Steve, there was no reaction That was like a slap in the face He didn’t want to talk about it much after that. On top of the TV there are several colour photographs of baby Steven. Lisa gestures towards them: “When I got pregnant with him my partner Steve and I were dead chuffed. We’d been trying for a child for a long time.”

Lisa Gearing sits on the sofa with her son Jake, who’s almost one, sleeping beside her in his buggy.

On top of the TV there are several colour photographs of baby Steven. Lisa gestures towards them: “When I got pregnant with him my partner Steve and I were dead chuffed. We’d been trying for a child for a long time.”

She was 17, Steve Cunningham was 19, and it seemed like a return to the “brilliant” early days of their relationship. Lisa Gearing sits on the sofa with her son Jake, who’s almost one, sleeping beside her in his buggy. Unionists insist no democratic party can keep a private army.
The IRA has never given any indication it would be prepared to decommission but some reports suggest it may now be considering a “tactical” move to break the current impasse.
Sinn Fein chief whip, Alex Maskey, refused to comment on talk of disarmament, except to say there had been a lot of speculation in recent days, most of it inaccurate.
He said the peace process was at a “defining moment” and Sinn Fein thought there was a “slim chance of progress”, but was determined to do all it could to make it work.
“We are seeking to end this crisis by the establishment of the political institutions”, he said.
Senator Mitchell, who has spent nine weeks at Stormont conducting a review of the workings of the Good Friday Agreement, is expected to produce a report very soon.
But it is not clear whether this will contain the bones of a deal, his own proposals or simply an account of a “work in progress”.
He has spent the past week briefing US president Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish premier, Bertie Ahern.
He will also talk to the head of the international decommissioning body, General John de Chastelain, who could play a key role in assuring unionists on the weapons issue.. It appears to us members of Sinn Fein may be very good propagandists but we have not found them able to grapple effectively with the reality of what is democracy.”
The UUP refuses to sit in a power-sharing executive with Sinn Fein unless the IRA commits to giving up its terrorist arsenal.

Ulster Unionist MP Ken Maginnis today poured cold water on reports that the IRA might be about to give up some of its weapons in a bid to end the deadlock in the Northern Ireland peace process.

Former US Senator George Mitchell has returned to Belfast for crucial talks to try to broker a deal between the UUP and Sinn Fein over devolution and decommissioning.
Mr Maginnis said: “I don’t find any evidence at grass roots level that the leadership of the IRA/Sinn has been conditioning people to move into the real world of politics.
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