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Best of the BelTel: The story of the Castlereagh Raid
In 2002 the IRA walked into a Belfast PSNI station and walked out with the secret security files they were looking for. Who planned it and why? There…
3 years, 6 months ago
Downfall: Sean Quinn, the Cavan Versailles and the wrath of the fairies
He was a millionaire by 30, but Sean Quinn's rise and fall is documented in a new book, which looks at his many investments, and how nothing, not eve…
3 years, 6 months ago
Colin Harvey makes the case for a United Ireland
Ireland was partitioned in 1921 when most of the island left the UK to form the Irish Free State. Six Counties of the north-east immediately left to …
3 years, 6 months ago
Lee Reynolds makes the case for the Union
Northern Ireland is come into existence on the the 3rd of May 1921 and Ireland as it was to that point, is partitioned. Most of the island became th…
3 years, 6 months ago
The complex legacy of SAS legend Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne
One of the founders of the SAS, Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne was a great soldier and a hero in his native town, Newtownards. But his legacy is a complicated o…
3 years, 6 months ago
Newry gangland murder sparks fears of further bloodshed
Northern Ireland’s gangland bloodletting continues with the latest hit has claiming the life of a man in Newry. Mark Lovell was shot up to 15 times …
3 years, 7 months ago
Wrightbus and Green Pastures in the headlines as court actions begun against the company directors and the mega-church
Ballymena company Wrightbus collasped in 2019, now the Department for the Economy’s Insolvency service is taking a civil action against 14 people ove…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Loyalist Flag Protests, 10 years on
On the night of 3 December 2012, Belfast City Council took a vote which led to instant protests. The union flag had flown every single day from City …
3 years, 7 months ago
The Peru Two: From dancer to drug smuggler, the Michaela McCollum story
August 2013 and Dungannon woman Michaella McCollum – along with her travelling companion Melissa Reid, attempted to leave Peru with €1.6million worth…
3 years, 7 months ago
Unsolved: The murder of Marian Beattie
Portadown teenager Marian Beattie was just 18 years old when she was murdered. She had gone to a dance in the company of her brother and best friend …
3 years, 7 months ago