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Kincora abuse investigation stopped by MI5 says ex-army officer

Posted By: August 01, 2014

The Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast was at the centre of a child abuse scandal in the 1980s BBC. NI. Thursday, August 1, 2014 A former army intelligence officer has said he was ordered to stop investigating allegations of child sexual abuse at a boys’ home in the 1970s. Brian Gemmell said a senior MI5 officer […]

DUP ONLY WANTS TO FOCUS ON ESSENTIALS

Posted By: July 30, 2014

“ Have they[DUP] worked out that in a decade unionists will be in a minority in all but two and a half of the six counties and in both Belfast and Derry?” Brian Feeney. Wednesday, July 30, 2014 DID you ever wonder what the DUP want? Not unionists in general. There’s no evidence for what they want since most don’t […]

State needs dedicated, stand-alone intelligence service

Posted By: July 25, 2014

“Such activities can collide with the interests of other states including the UK – sensitive Garda units have been infiltrated by British intelligence in the past. Edward Burke. Irish Times. Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 17:27Angela Merkel’s old mobile phone is an icon of our time. A Nokia 6210 Slide – it was accessed and monitored by the […]

MI5’s murky role in Kincora scandal yet to be exposed

Posted By: July 25, 2014

McCann.Irish Times. Thursday, July 24, 2014, 12:08 The former British intelligence officer Colin Wallace told Radio Ulster last weekend that any inquiry into Kincora Boys’ Home will not be able to get to the truth if it doesn’t have access to evidence about the role of MI5. If that’s so, the chances of the truth […]

On the Runs scheme ‘not amnesty and lawful’ says judge

Posted By: July 22, 2014

  BBC NI. July 117, 2014   Letters issued to republican terrorism suspects – so-called On the Runs – were not an amnesty and the scheme was lawful, a judge has found. Lady Justice Hallett’s review, ordered by PM David Cameron, found “significant systemic failures” in how it operated. The scheme was made public when the trial collapsed of a […]

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