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Stormont’s extreme censorship of Famine remarks – and how we unravelled it
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‘How I stumbled on Stormont’s new policy of extreme censorship - which means we’ll understand NI’s past less fully’.
That was the stark headline on a recent comment piece from my colleague Sam McBride – the Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor.
He discovered the unannounced policy whilst exploring declassified files in London - a policy which has been used to cover-up official attitudes to the Famine.
Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar to explain the story behind the headline.
Stormont’s extreme censorship of Famine remarks – and how we unravelled it
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