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Seán Quinn's podcast: How is his version of the story going down?
Once Ireland's richest man, Seán Quinn has returned to tell his story once again, this time through his new podcast, The Quinn Files.
Fionnán Sheahan…
1 month ago
The ‘Hen House Boy’: 70 years on from the story of neglect which shocked NI
In September 1956 a Crossgar schoolboy made a shocking discovery after peering into a hen house and locking eyes with a child. The eyes belonged to s…
1 month ago
Kew Files: Who was the senior DUP member who supported violence just weeks before the Good Friday Agreement?
A senior DUP member set out their explicit support for violence - just weeks before the Good Friday Agreement.
Files released in the National Archiv…
1 month ago
Holy Cross: Clerics Fr Troy and Rev Hamilton on the protest and resolving it
When many people hear the words ‘Holy Cross’ - short for Holy Cross Girls Primary School – the words take them back to a dark time.
Holy Cross is a …
1 month, 1 week ago
Holy Cross 25-years-on: Allison Morris on what she saw, and the loyalist point of view
The Good Friday Agreement was signed in 1998, but certain areas of Belfast felt little effect of peace. In September 2001, the Holy Cross dispute be…
1 month, 1 week ago
David Sullivan: The mystery of the headless alleged paedophile’s murder
In September 2000 a body was found in a bog in Fermanagh. This was not a so called ‘bog-body’, sacrificed long ago - the body turned out to belong t…
1 month, 1 week ago
God, Religion, the Troubles, and Christian Peacebuilding
For much of the world, the Troubles in Northern Ireland were about Catholics and Protestants fighting each other. With those labels being used as sho…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“Everything that I was told was a lie”: Lauren Bradford-Clarke, Colin Howell’s daughter
Lauren Bradford-Clarke grew up believing her mother Lesley had taken her own life before finding out the truth – her father was a murderer. She was t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The IRA’s infamous escape from Belfast’s prison ship, the HMS Maidstone
HMS Maidstone, an ex-Royal Navy Ship, was used in the early 1970s to hold internees.
In January 1972, a group of IRA prisoners swam 270 meters through…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Drumcree: The crisis over an Orange parade which brought NI to the brink
The Parades Commission acted wrongly in blocking Orangemen from seeking to march down a mainly nationalist road in Portadown, a court has ruled.
Senio…
1 month, 2 weeks ago