Posted By: June 10, 2016
Newton Emerson. Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, June 9, 2016 There is a striking inconsistency in the PSNI’s position towards The Irish News and the Kingsmill massacre.Last Friday night, into the early hours of Saturday morning, a crown solicitor acting for the chief constable tried to stop this newspaper publishing an interview with Omagh bomber Colm Murphy, who has just […]
Posted By: June 10, 2016
Thursday, June 9, 2016 [Press Release from Ombudsman Officie]. The Police Ombudsman, Dr. Michael Maguire, has published a report this morning which reveals police informants at the most senior levels within Loyalist paramilitary organisations were involved in an importation of guns and ammunition into Northern Ireland in the mid to late Eighties. The report has […]
Posted By: June 10, 2016
Vincent Kearney . BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent Thursday, June 9, 2016 • From the section Northern IrelandThere was collusion between some police officers and loyalist gunmen who killed six Catholics 22 years ago, a report by NI’s Police Ombudsman has said. It said there was no evidence police had prior knowledge of […]
Posted By: June 09, 2016
Equal Treatment for Northern Ireland and its Immigrants Why not an emigrant Appointee to Stormont? Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny has appointed an “Emigrant Senator” to the Irish Senate to represent the concerns of Irish immigrants in the United States: Galway native, Billy Lawless in Chicago. This has been welcomed as a good idea. Well, then—in […]
Posted By: June 09, 2016
By Allison Morris.Irish News (Belfast). Thursday, June 9, 2016.Direct collusion between RUC Special Branch and members of a UVF gang prevented the killers of six men, gunned down in a Co Down bar 22-years-ago, being brought to justice it has been revealed. Two of the weapons used in the attack on the Heights Bar had […]