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Lennox, a Belfast native who previously worked on the Troubles-themed coming of age comedy “Derry Girls,” played an essential role in setting its tone which, though grim, is also inflected with dark humor.

Perhaps these fires burn in part because the Northeast does not yet have a grim and hard-won culture of fire safety.

Even though it was yet another grim year in the war in Vietnam, people lined the street and waved as we marched by.

The Springboks drew first blood and, given it was so early, it was a grim beginning for Scotland.

With Wales facing a rejuvenated Australia next Sunday before the arrival of world champions South Africa, Gatland's side face the grim prospect of not winning an international match in a calendar year for the first time since 1937.