Rap trio Kneecap may be subverting the word, but the psychological wounds are still raw for victims of shootings and their families
For Jeanitta McCabe, the word kneecap conjures not a rap trio on stage but a memory that plays in her head, unspooling again and again in a loop.
It is the night of 13 September 1990 and she is a 10-year-old at home in bed in Newry, County Down, when Northern Ireland’s Troubles come barrelling through the family’s front door.
