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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
Maura Lyons: The Rev Ian Paisley and the 15-year-old 'abducted' from west Belfast
The Rev Ian Paisley rose to prominence as the face of hardline unionism but the first time some would have heard of him would have been in connection…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘Peace at last’: The 1994 Loyalist Ceasefires
On the 13 October 1994, six weeks after the IRA announced a ‘complete cessation’, the Loyalist paramilitary groups declared their ceasefires.
The UVF…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Jon Burrows and the UUP in a fix as Mike Nesbitt resigns
The UUP's Mike Nesbitt has resigned as health minister – with a stinging public resignation letter aimed at his UUP leader Jon Burrows
The row is over…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
'It’s Over’: The 1994 IRA 'ceasefire'
After 25 years of what it termed ‘Armed Struggle’ and the ‘Long War’ , the Provisional IRA called a “complete cessation of military operations” on 31…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Families search for truth over 1983 south Armagh murders
Paddy Mackin and Eamon MacMahon's bodies were found on the morning of the 13th of July, 1983.
They both had been blasted with a shotgun as close ran…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Culture war rages in the wake of Prof Jason Arday resignation
UPDATE: Professor Jason Arday was found deceased in London on Friday afternoon. He was found at an address in Battersea and pronounced dead at the sc…
2 months ago
Fleadh Cheoil hailed as an enormous success for Belfast
Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann took over Belfast City Centre for over a week drawing huge crowds.
The all-Ireland traditional Irish music competition and…
2 months ago
Inside the court as alleged godfather Daniel Kinahan charged and jailed
Daniel Kinahan sounded bemused when he described the frenzy around his life as “movie stuff”, but the scenes that accompanied his trip back to Irelan…
2 months ago