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Thomas Niedermayer: How the IRA murder of a German businessman led to the death of his family
Thomas Niedermayer was kidnapped from his Belfast home in 1973. There was no ransom demand, no information. But there couldn’t be, because he had bee…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sinn Féin: Aoife Moore's new book sets out to reveal the inner workings of Ireland’s largest political party
Aoife Moore’s new book on Sinn Féin is on the shelves and in the headlines. The Derry-born journalist’s approach to Sinn Féin has drawn the ire of so…
3 years, 1 month ago
Wallace Thompson: DUP founder tells Sam McBride ‘New’ Ireland is inevitable
Wallace Thompson was a founder member of the DUP and a loyal follower of the late Ian Paisley. Now he feels that some form of Irish Unity is inevita…
3 years, 1 month ago
Comedian Tim McGarry talks comedy, religion and the need for integrated education
Tim McGarry and iconic on-screen character on screen 'Da', along with the likes of Uncle Andy and Billy the Peeler, has long been making fun of life …
3 years, 1 month ago
Policing in crisis: What next for the PSNI as Simon Byrne bows to the inevitable?
In the end, Simon Byrne had to go. He had lost the confidence of the public and politicians – and above all, of his own officers. The final straw w…
3 years, 1 month ago
‘A People Under Siege’: Author Aaron Edwards in conversation with Sam McBride on the history and future of Ulster’s unionists
Aaron Edwards is from Rathcoole in north Belfast but works at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, educating the British Army’s future officers. He …
3 years, 1 month ago
Putin after Prigozhin: Could he reach for the nuclear option to halt Ukrainian advance?
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief uprising challenged Vladimir Putin in a way no one else ever has. Is the Russian president now in a stronger position or ha…
3 years, 1 month ago
Polls back Jeffrey Donaldson’s boycott of Stormont – so what next?
The latest Belfast Telegraph Lucidtalk polling tells us the majority of unionists are behind the DUP boycott of the NI Assembly and Executive. Does …
3 years, 1 month ago
What would a Labour Government mean for Northern Ireland?
With the Labour Party soaring ahead in the polls, Keir Starmer is predicted to become the next Prime Minister after the general elections. But what w…
3 years, 2 months ago
Lucy Letby: We know what she did, but why did she do it?
We know Letby murdered babies and tried to kill many more but why? How did this young, intelligent, woman, with loving parents, become a mass murdere…
3 years, 2 months ago