There seems to be a lack of overall perspective on the beleaguered inner city of Dublin from the conservation planners in Dublin City Council. The Council’s decades-long neglect of conservation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legacy of Chris Ryder, the former Sunday Times (ST) journalist who passed away last Friday, is not one to be proud of: he was one of a number of journalists who helped MI5 and the RUC’s Special ...

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 ...

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 document reproduced above is the opening five-paragraph extract of a four-page, forty-paragraph Ulster Defence Association (UDA) intelligence report, or ‘memo’ as it is titled, describing the ...

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 ...