Irish News, Politics, Culture
Just after 10 pm on Saturday the 18th of June 1994, two men wearing boiler suits and balaclavas entered the Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down,Continue Reading
The solidly pro-union newspaper, The News Letter, has launched an editorial campaign to revise the contested history of the Irish-BritishContinue Reading
The news that Drew Harris, the Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), has been selectedContinue Reading
The Glenanne Gang was a state-backed terrorist group which operated in the United Kingdom’s embattled legacy colony on the islandContinue Reading
A former killer with the Glenanne Gang, a pro-British death squad which operated in the UK-administered north-east of Ireland duringContinue Reading
In the wake of 2013’s Smithwick Tribunal investigation into the violent death of Harry Breen, the Royal Ulster Constabulary chiefContinue Reading
As I predicted back in March, the United Kingdom is slowly moving towards a general amnesty for all members ofContinue Reading
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
Since the effective end of the conflict in the north-east of Ireland, the so-called Irish-British Troubles, a few inquisitive elements ofContinue Reading
The Royal Ulster Constabulary, policemen by day, gunmen by night, was formed in the summer of 1922 from the shambolic remains of theContinue Reading
During a number of recent speeches the presidential nominee for the Republican Party in the United States, ex-real estate mogul DonaldContinue Reading
Last week the BBC news and current affairs programme, Spotlight, broadcast a series of interviews and dramatic reenactments with a man they calledContinue Reading
The British investigative journalist and author, Ian Cobain, has published a new book examining the United Kingdom’s post-WWII record of covert governmentContinue Reading
There is further evidence today of the dual nature of Britain’s counter-insurgency war in Ireland, the use of regular and irregularContinue Reading
It’s an uncomfortable truism of the human condition that sociopaths are made, not born, and the life and death ofContinue Reading
Forty-seven year old Séamus Ludlow, a quiet, unassuming life-long bachelor, was something of a man of habit. On the afternoonContinue Reading
In his final exploration of the evidence sourced for the RTÉ television documentary “Collusion”, a feature-length programme examining the links between the UK military and intelligence services garrisonedContinue Reading
One might well regard it as forty years and several hundred deaths too late but RTÉ, Ireland’s public service broadcaster, seems to haveContinue Reading
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s British terrorist groups in the north-east of Ireland began to justify their attacksContinue Reading
Sixteen years after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, thirteen years after the “reform” of policing, seven years afterContinue Reading
Jim Cusack, the “security” correspondent of the Sunday Independent newspaper and arch-apologist for British colonial policing in Ireland, has pennedContinue Reading
In the “better late than never” category Britain’s Left-leaning newspaper, the Guardian, has published a special investigation by Ian CobainContinue Reading
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