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Kneecap’s Mo Chara’s terror charge case judgment delayed over technical legal argument
The judge hearing Kneecap member Mo Chara’s terror charge case needs more time to think about what he’s going to do next. 27-year-old Liam Óg Ó hAnn…
7 months ago
LucidTalk: TUV, unionist pacts, bonfires and bilingual signs
The TUV has dramatically emerged as the third most popular party in Northern Ireland in the latest BelTel / LucidTalk polling. Most unionists want el…
7 months ago
The Gunmen: The Nutting Squad, who were the IRA's security team really loyal to?
The IRA's internal security unit, responsible for hunting down informers and executing them, was known as 'The Nutting Squad'. Ruthless, cruel, effic…
7 months ago
Allison Morris: East Belfast fox-baiter Neil Pinkerton behind racist ‘patrols’ now banned by TikTok
‘Racism, pure and simple’ - that’s the PSNI’s assessment of an anti-migrant group roaming the streets of east Belfast. The self-styled vigilantes wer…
7 months ago
The Gunmen: Billy Wright (Part Two), the birth of the LVF and the prison assassination
Billy Wright, 'King Rat’, founded the LVF to defy the UVF. That led to imprisonment. Incredibly Wright was gunned down inside the Maze maximum securi…
7 months ago
The Gunmen: Billy Wright (Part One), the rise of King Rat
LVF leader Billy Wright was charismatic, religious, ruthless and cold. A sectarian murderer but a hero to many in loyalism. Wright was feared by most…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Gunmen: Colm Murphy, the life-time south Armagh republican found liable for Omagh
South Armagh republican Colm Murphy was at various points a member of the Provisional IRA, the INLA and the Real IRA. In his later years, he was link…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Gunmen: Michael Stone, loyalism's most notorious killer of the Troubles
Michael Stone is one of the most notorious gunmen of the Troubles. Known in loyalist circles as a gun for hire, he murdered 3 people at an IRA funera…
7 months, 1 week ago
Sam McBride on the DUP’s route to power sharing - denials, flattery of Ian Paisley’s ego and secret Sinn Féin talks
Flattery, deceit, a bung, MI5, and the secret back-channel to Sinn Féin- uncovered files have revealed the DUP’s route to power-sharing. Publicly the…
7 months, 1 week ago
“I know evil is an over an overused word, but he was evil”: Detective who solved NI’s longest cold case
In September 1966 the body of a baby girl – Lynda Cochrane – was discovered at Ballykinler Army Base in County Down. It wasn’t until 2006 when former…
7 months, 2 weeks ago