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Sallins Train Robbery: Osgur Breatnach, a false confession, the Garda 'Heavy Gang', and convicted by a sleeping judge (Part 2)
The Sallins train robbery was one of the most daring and lucrative heists in the history of the Irish State. And for Osgur Breatnach, a journalist an…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Sallins Train Robbery: The IRSP members wrongly imprisoned for IRA heist (Part 1)
On the night of March 30th, 1976, a gang of armed men held a family hostage in rural County Kildare and derailed a mail train carrying the equivalent…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
What is Micheál Martin saying (or not) about a United Ireland?
Taoiseach Micheál Martin says that he is “not planning” for a 2030 border poll. He’s currently promoting his Shared Island Initiative – which some un…
11 months ago
‘Every one of them looks like someone’s grandfather’: Belfast pensioners sentenced for running grooming gang
Belfast pensioner Oliver MacCormack has been handed a seven-year sentence for exploiting vulnerable young women by plying them with heroin and forcin…
11 months ago
The National Front, Tartan gangs and Combat 18: Loyalism and the far-right
How successful were far-right attempts to influence loyalism and how deep do radical right links with loyalism go today? From the National Front to C…
11 months ago
Rory McIlroy achieves sporting immortality with Masters victory
On Sunday night at Augusta National, Rory McIlroy defeated Justin Rose in a heart-stopping playoff to win the Masters for the first time in his caree…
11 months ago
Joe Lynskey and Robert Nairac: 'Bodies will never be found’, IRA source admits
Joe Lynskey, one of the Disappeared, was murdered by his IRA colleagues in 1972 and his body secretly buried. Remains recently found in a County Mona…
11 months ago
'Burn them out': The long history of fascism and the far-right in Ireland
Ireland has long flirted with the far-right – and has had political movements with profoundly antisemitic views. Historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has wr…
11 months, 1 week ago
Sam McBride: Paul Givan and the case of the missing civil servant
A few months ago, one of Stormont’s most senior civil servants vanished. Mark Browne was the top official in Stormont’s Department of Education. But …
11 months, 1 week ago
SSPX Resistance: Who are the group behind masses Catholic Church in Derry says are ‘illicit’?
The Catholic Bishop of Derry has warned of “illicit” masses being held in the city by clergy not recongnised by the hierarchy. Bishop Dónal Mac Keown…
11 months, 1 week ago