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Crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried and Newry’s millionaire wonderkid
Crypto currencies have had a bad year but what exactly are they - the future of money, financial freedom or just an elaborate scam? Ciarán Dunbar sit…
3 years, 5 months ago
1998: Talks, an agreement and Mo Mowlam
State Papers from 1999 give a glimpse of what was going on during the Mo Mowlam era of Northern Ireland politics. They reveal the desperate attempts …
3 years, 5 months ago
Lord Lucan, the horrific murder, his Irish links and could a man in Australia really be him?
Lord Lucan dramatically disappeared after the murder of his family’s nanny Sandra Rivett in 1974. The aristocrat vanished after Rivett’s murder and t…
3 years, 6 months ago
“My Name is Joseph”: How a young Belfast man lost his life in prison
How failures contributed to the death of a young Belfast Joseph Rainey died in 2013, 10 days after attempting to take his own life in Hydebank Wood …
3 years, 6 months ago
Best of the BelTel: Dennis Donaldson, Britain's agent at the heart of Sinn Féin and the IRA
Denis Donaldson answered to former Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, and was at the heart of the republican movement for 20 years. So, how did he manage…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Best of the BelTel: What happened to Lisa Dorrian?
In February 2005, 25-year-old Lisa Dorrian went missing from a caravan park in Co Down and has never been seen again. Almost two decades on, her fami…
3 years, 6 months ago
Best of the BelTel: Murdered in prison - How the INLA killed Billy Wright
Billy Wright, 'King Rat’, was gunned down inside the Maze maximum security prison. How did the INLA manage to get a gun inside the jail and what was …
3 years, 6 months ago
Best of the BelTel: ‘King Rat’, Billy Wright’s rise as a loyalist icon and LVF chief
Charismatic, religious, ruthless, cold, Billy Wright was feared by most people but respected by some people for ‘taking the war to the IRA’. Where di…
3 years, 6 months ago
2022, a massive year for news, profound change and not short of farce
This year saw the death of the Queen and a major war in Europe. In Northern Ireland we have seen hitmen gunning down their victims in broad daylight.…
3 years, 6 months ago
Best of the BelTel: Inside the mind of Hazel Stewart
Rural Castlerock in 1991; Embroiled in a sordid affair, Hazel Stewart and Colin Howell plot the double murder of their spouses, disguising them as su…
3 years, 6 months ago