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Europe 2024: What's lies ahead for the EU with Donald Trump on the horizon?
Against a backdrop of a rising far right and war across the globe, Europe goes to the polls in June. Why is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán see…
2 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Perry and the IRA’s execution of her alleged murderer
The body of Portadown woman Margaret Perry was found a year after she went missing, the bodies of three men the IRA itself accused of her murder were…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rose Dugdale: The English millionaire debutante who joined the IRA
Born in England into immense wealth and luxury, Rose Dugdale turned her back on riches to become a bombmaker, a thief and a terrorist. But why did sh…
2 years, 2 months ago
The United Nations: Why is it so powerless as wars continue to rage?
Prof Jussi Hanhimäki argues the international body is still important, despite the challenges it faces.
But what exactly is the UN? What is its role…
2 years, 2 months ago
General Sir Frank Kitson: The legacy of the British officer most associated with the Troubles
Was Kitson responsible for enflaming the Troubles or did his own books leave him a convenient scapegoat?
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Edward Burke, a …
2 years, 2 months ago
The Foundlings: Three siblings abandoned alone search for fourth ‘foundling’
This is the story of three long-lost siblings, all abandoned in mysterious circumstances in Lisburn, Dundalk and Drogheda, who unbelievably found the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Kevin Conway: ‘Firm’ member slain in west Belfast gangland murder
Kevin Conway, originally from the Lurgan area, was shot dead in Belfast on 9th January. Linked to ‘The Firm’ he was one of three men charged in relat…
2 years, 2 months ago
Post Office scandal: “They knew what was going on”
Described as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history, between 1999 and 2015 over 700 postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly acc…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Persuader: Sam McBride and Stephen Walker on John Hume
John Hume was not just one of the most influential men in Northern Ireland politics, but in Irish history, as the leader of nationalism throughout mo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Best of the Beltel: Colm Murphy, the veteran republican found liable for Omagh Bombing
South Armagh republican Colm Murphy died earlier this year at the age of 70. He had been convicted but later acquitted of involvement in the Omagh bo…
2 years, 2 months ago