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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…
8 months, 2 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 3 weeks 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…
8 months, 4 weeks 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…
9 months ago
The Gunmen: Michael Stone, the Trouble's most notorious loyalist killer
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…
9 months ago
Peter ‘the Punt’ Robinson and the the loyalist ‘invasion’ of Clontibret
In the early hours of 7 August 1986, hundreds of Ulster Loyalists, some in paramilitary uniforms, spilled over the border and into the County Monagha…
9 months ago