Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, a beacon of resilience and a tireless advocate for justice reform, passed away at the age of seventy-six in a tragic house fire in Glenmacmurrin, County Galway, Ireland, today ...

Enoch Powell and a young Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the new leader of the DUP. Powell, a racist and paedophile, believed that “the analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women”. The late Enoch Powell was ...

1. Kitson’s Private Army. Lance Corporal David Cleary was a member of the elite Support Company of the 1 st Parachute Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford reported upwards to ...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has displayed no interest in Lord Louis Mountbatten’s links to the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring. Its members preyed upon Kincora Boys’ Home and other ...

A few weeks ago the Irish Times ran an article on the death of Mountbatten linked to the new series of The Crown in which the murder features in the opening episode. As the author of the most recent ...

A synopsis of a fuller story covered in Village‘s print magazine. Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions ...

The Information Research Department (IRD) of Britain’s Foreign Office sought to smear the victims of Bloody Sunday and the McGurks bar bomb atrocity. They even went so far as to attack a group of ...

Shortly after the February 1982 general election, Ed Moloney of the Irish Times found himself standing in a room “in the office of Andy Tyrie at the UDA’s HQ in Gawn Street on the Newtownards Road” ...

In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General, Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues decided to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs ...

British soldiers abused the citizens of Belfast in a variety of armoured personnel carriers (APCs). Cleary and Cook used the APC assigned to them to abduct and torture young males in Belfast. The ...

Deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, referred to Soldier F by his real name, David James Cleary, in Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, yesterday (9 February). Cleary was a cruel, cynical and ...

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