this day

“I never thought this day was going to happen,” she explained.

To this day, historians debate whether Thomas Faunce’s memory, at 95, was accurate.

To this day, political violence continues to be an issue in Peru, though the ‘80s and ’90s — when the Maoist guerrilla movement Shining Path waged bloody conflicts against the Peruvian government before being crushed by President Alberto Fujimori — are considered the country’s rock-bottom.

"It really is unacceptable in this day and age where a driver has to drive a bus full of children to school and to ask them to take responsibility of driving roads which are untreated is really ridiculous in the 21st century," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.

The proof of that is in family ties cherished to this day.