Podcast Episodes

Missing for 34 years: Patsy O’Sullivan and the secret family no one knew about

It was in April 1992 when Patrick 'Patsy' O'Sullivan called into his brother Jerry's home like it was any other day, but it’s a day that will forever…

1 day, 3 hours ago

Drumcree: Garvaghy Residents’ challenge dismissed, dispute rumbles on despite parade ban

The parading crisis in Portadown seems over on the ground, but it is very much alive in the courts, on the airwaves, and in politics.

The Northern Ir…

2 days, 10 hours ago

The St Andrews Agreement 20 years on: Paisley signs up to power-sharing

The St Andrews Agreement was signed twenty years ago on 13 October 2006.

Officially. it just amended the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, but it did b…

4 days, 2 hours ago

BONUS: From green fields to factory farms: How ‘catastrophic’ industrial agriculture policy is trashing environment

Northern Ireland’s Agriculture and Environment Minister Andrew Muir interviewed by Belfast Telegraph Northern Ireland Editor Sam McBride, discussing …

5 days, 2 hours ago

Encrochat: Spy hack on gangster phones still decimating NI drug dealers’ ranks

In recent weeks, the 2020 French hack into the secret gangster phone network Encrochat has continued to see Northern Ireland drug dealers sent to Mag…

6 days, 3 hours ago

Drumcree: Suzanne Breen on how the impact Garvaghy dispute is having on politics

The stand-off between the Drumcree Orange men and the Garvaghy residents continues.

In Belfast on Monday – a court reserved judgment on the residents’…

1 week, 1 day ago

Donaldson still in Maghaberry hospital as old home goes up for sale

He was once known as the Right Honourable Sir Jeffrey Donaldson but is now known as inmate number E5032.

Donaldson once proudly walked the corridors …

1 week, 3 days ago

‘They’ve got Marty’: the unsolved murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan

A fearless investigative reporter who exposed the criminal underworld behind Northern Ireland’s paramilitaries, O’Hagan had made dangerous enemies on…

1 week, 4 days ago

Drumcree: No deal over Garvaghy march, £3m spent so far, O'Neill defiant

The standoff between the Orangemen on Drumcree and the residents of the Garvaghy Road continues in Portadown.

Negotiations involving the Secretary of…

1 week, 6 days ago

The mistake that left ‘Slab' Murphy with a big bill and a massive problem

In 1990, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy lost his seminal libel case against the Sunday Times.

But formerly secret files reveal the south Armagh republican was …

2 weeks, 1 day ago