Posted By: January 18, 2016
Irish News Editorial (Belfast). Monday, January 18, 2016 The case of the notorious west Belfast IRA figure Freddie Scappaticci – widely believed to be the top-level British army agent known as Stakeknife – is deeply disturbing in every respect.Scappaticci has been linked to at least 20 murders carried out by the IRA internal security unit called ‘the Nutting Squad’, although there have […]
Posted By: January 16, 2016
Shooting victim’s father says Scappaticci gave him details of son’s killing Allison Morris. Irish News (Belfast). Saturday, January 16, 2016 Frank Mulhern, father of Joseph Mulhern who was shot by IRA in July 1993. Picture by Mal Mc Cann Joseph Mulhern who was shot dead by the IRA in 1993 and his body […]
Posted By: January 15, 2016
Northern Ireland’s legacy issues are left aside by politicians as relatives demand justiceSusan McKay. Irish Times. Friday, January 15, 2016 When Sarah Reavey was in her first year at Our Lady’s Grammar School in Newry, Co Down, in 1999, her English teacher asked her class to write a poem.“Everyone else wrote about their pets and going on holiday and silly, fun stuff,” […]
Posted By: January 13, 2016
Dublin in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 Brian Feeney. Irish News (Belfast).Wednesday, January 13,2016William Faulkner wrote: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ How right he was and nowhere is that remark better exemplified than in Ireland. James Joyce said: ‘History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’ He meant Irish history of […]
Posted By: January 12, 2016
Irish News Editorial (Belfast). Tuesday, January 12, 2016Arlene Foster continued her remarkable journey yesterday with her formal confirmation as first minister just weeks after she assumed the leadership of the DUP.All new leaders have something of a honeymoon period but hers may be of short duration given the upcoming Assembly elections in May and we can be sure the parties are already […]