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Loughinisland Massacre: Trevor Birney on the PSNI’s "Stasi" tactics, and his arrest
Loughinisland is a small parish in Co. Down. Its name has become synonymous with the infamous Loughinisland Massacre, when six were killed by the UVF…
1 year, 11 months ago
Alf McCreary: Journalism, a lucky break, Ian Paisley and faith
Alf McCreary walked into the Belfast Telegraph on September 1, 1964 – and asked for a job. 60 years on, he's still writing for the paper. Alf’s caree…
1 year, 11 months ago
The UVF and the savage '70s: Shankill Butchers, Gusty Spence, and the Dublin Monaghan Bombings
The UVF began the 1970s with a campaign to cleans Catholics and Catholic owned businesses from Protestant dominated areas. With the IRA’s campaign at…
1 year, 11 months ago
BONUS: The 'Angel of Death' who terrified Irish town and captivated the world
Back in 1995, Fr Michael Kennedy took to the pulpit in Dungarvan, County Waterford to give his Sunday sermon. He warned locals that an “Angel of Deat…
1 year, 11 months ago
Alexander McCartney: “Nothing but a disgusting child predator”
Alexander McCartney, from Newry, is one of the most prolific paedophile ‘catfishes’ the world has seen to date. A Judge said his crimes of “sadism an…
1 year, 11 months ago
Incels exposed: “Men aren’t entitled to sex, but women aren’t owed safety”
The word ‘Incel’ is short for ‘involuntarily celibate’. They’re primarily men, who believe they’re doomed to be alone, blaming society, women, and so…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ireland’s gang wars: How the Kinahans’ Belfast bound assassin ‘The Butcher’ was caught
The Kinahan cartel is Ireland’s most powerful crime gang, and one half of its most notorious gang war. After a failed hit on boss Daniel Kinahan, the…
2 years ago
Sinn Féin’s woes – self-inflicted, a media pile on, or a lack of professionalism?
Sinn Féin controversies snowball as party member resigns after a portrait is damaged in Belfast City. Is the party suffering from a media pile-on bef…
2 years ago
Serial killer Uel ‘Cookie’ Cooke and the brutal murder of Anne-Marie Smyth
Samuel ‘Uel’ Cooke was a prolific UVF hitman. Connected to at least six murders, including the killing of IRA Chief Brendan ‘Ruby’ Davison, his most …
2 years ago
The RIC murders of the McMahon family, which changed Belfast forever
On 24th March 1922, five men dressed in RIC police uniforms broke into the north Belfast home of well-known Catholic publican Owen McMahon. The men s…
2 years ago