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GARRET, THE SPY AND KITSON’S IRISH WAR

September 9, 2021

IN A timely postscript to Cullum Macrae’s The Ballymurphy Massacre programme, author David Burke is about to publish a book on Brigadier Frank... Read more »

HAS SYRIA BEEN ZAPPED?

August 12, 2021

SURELY KATHERINE ZAPPONE doesn’t need to suffer the carping of the Shinners or Social Democrats? Sure as special envoy didn’t she take Ireland from... Read more »

RIGHT-WING SCAPEGOAT

July 29, 2021

THE RECENT Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection has damaged the political career of Longford man James Reynolds, founder and deputy leader of the... Read more »

CYBER WAR COMES TO DUBLIN

July 15, 2021

FORMER IRISH soldier Ross Frenett founder of anti-extremist organisation Moonshot, initially based in London, aims to combat all kinds of online harm. But... Read more »

ACCENTURE’S BORDER WARS

July 1, 2021

MORE THAN 80 million people were forced from their homes globally during the year, with almost 35 million of these seeking refuge or... Read more »

DREW HARRIS AND THE MI5 AGENT

June 17, 2021

IN AUGUST 2020, Operation Arbacia, a major MI5 exercise, hit the headlines. It saw 10 people charged with activities linked to the New... Read more »

THE EU AND AFRICA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

June 3, 2021

GIVEN ITS capacity for Orwellian speak, the EU’s unveiling of something called the European Peace Facility (EPF), should make one sit up and... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOOT CAMP

May 20, 2021

SINCE 2019, RTÉ has partnered with Motive Television to produce Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week, and preparations for the third series began last... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOOT CAMP

May 20, 2021

SINCE 2019, RTÉ has partnered with Motive Television to produce Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week, and preparations for the third series began last... Read more »

IT’S A LONG WAY FROM KILKENNY

May 6, 2021

WELL-TRAVELLED Kilkenny emigrant, young Caolan Robertson, has also had some interesting ideological journeys over the past decade as his recently launched media campaign... Read more »

HOW TO RECRUIT INFORMANTS

April 22, 2021

THE DREGS of loyalist paramilitaries took a break in recent weeks from selling drugs on an industrial scale to rage against borders in... Read more »

STEFAN HALLENIUS’S LOSSES

April 22, 2021

PUBLISHERS ARE among those struggling with Covid and Stefan Hallenius finds himself in the front line. He entered the Irish publishing world with... Read more »

WHO IS BEATING THE WAR DRUMS?

April 8, 2021

IT MAY seem a little surprising in the midst of a global pandemic and the costly Brexit process that British prime minister Boris... Read more »

MI5 PROVOCATEURS

March 11, 2021

NORTHERN SECRETARY Brandon Lewis ought to get a grip on his government’s intelligence apparatus and their activities in his patch before they do... Read more »

DUP’S ‘CONCERNED’ BEDFELLOWS

March 11, 2021

THE DUP’S connections with loyalist paramilitaries have once again been downplayed by the media, which continues to treat it as a normal political... Read more »

UNTURNED STONES

February 25, 2021

STEPHEN MARTIN, a top PSNI crime officer centrally involved in the decision to launch a criminal investigation into the journalists who probed the... Read more »

SUING OPERATION KENOVA

February 25, 2021

THE STAKEKNIFE farrago continues to unravel with Operation Kenova now being undermined by legal action. The murder of Belfast pensioner Francisco Notorantonio by... Read more »

DISSIDENTS TRICKED?

February 11, 2021

THE RECENT, highly professional execution in Belfast of Daniel McClean, a former member of the so-called Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH) dissident group, is... Read more »

SPY COPS

February 11, 2021

The so called Spy Cops bill currently being debated in Britain’s parliament gives agents being handled by UK covert forces the right to... Read more »

TORY RED HAND

January 28, 2021

THE ASSASSINATION of yet another collusion campaigner will be commemorated soon – Lurgan solicitor, Rosemary Nelson, March 1999 – but that hasn’t stopped... Read more »

DUP’S ‘PEACE-BUILDING’

January 28, 2021

DUP LINKED human-rights-abusing countries such as Bahrain, Moldova, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Israel have all received long-term military training from British armed... Read more »

THE POPE CONSPIRACY

January 14, 2021

JUST AS with the original 1996 DUP/Spook driven smear campaign against US peace envoy Martha Pope, the latest revelations – via the release... Read more »

KINAHANS GO NORTH

January 14, 2021

THE CONVICTION of two Kinahan gangsters recently in connection with a botched gangland hit in 2017 against rival Hutch gang supremo James ‘Mago’... Read more »

KINAHANS’ BELFAST LINKS

December 16, 2020

The Russian Makarov firearm, either as a handgun or rifle, is a signature weapon of the Kinahan cartel and has been linked to... Read more »

ANOTHER IRA TRIBUNAL?

December 16, 2020

The Irish state’s ‘stab in the back’ collusion with the IRA is an old unionist hobby horse that should have been put up... Read more »

CHARLIE FLANAGAN’S TROUBLES TROUBLE

December 3, 2020

Unionist psyops victim Eugene Reavey was recently vindicated in the UK parliament and former justice minister Charlie Flanagan was quick to join in... Read more »

IRELAND’S SPYCOPS

November 19, 2020

A British spy in the Real IRA, Dennis McFadden, is alleged to have a ‘love child’ with a woman from Donegal, whom he... Read more »

‘BEATING’ THE IRA

November 5, 2020
Successive governments in the Irish republic bear the brunt of responsibility for the IRA’s ‘insurgency’. That’s one of the core accusations from former Special... Read more »

JON BOUTCHER’S BLUSHES

November 5, 2020

The ‘Stakeknife’ spy charade was exposed to further ridicule last week when state prosecutors ruled there is no hard evidence that Fred Scappaticci... Read more »

MORE LICENSE TO KILL

October 22, 2020

THE NEW and even more aggressive agent-handling legislation about to be passed in Great Britain has major implications for Ireland MI5 agents and... Read more »

GONZAGA BLACKOUT

October 22, 2020

ONLY THAT uncouth, insensitive tabloid, the The Sun, reported that the former principal of Gonzaga College, Patrick Potts — the first non-Jesuit to... Read more »

GENE MURTAGH’S GONG

October 8, 2020

CONGRATULATIONS to Gene Murtagh, who has won the Irish Times’s Business Person of the Month Award for having “outperformed market expectations despite Covid-19”.... Read more »

DARK MONEY DELUGE

October 8, 2020

The fierce conflict raging at the moment between Azerbaijan fighters and the Armenian army seems a long way from money laundering and dubious... Read more »

BRITISH-IRISH PATRIOTS

September 24, 2020

FRANTIC SPECIAL Branch briefings to security correspondents last weekend about growing fascist-linked street violence produced reams of congratulatory copy in the media. Much... Read more »

COLLUSION DENIALS

September 24, 2020

THE UNIONIST Belfast Newsletter last week cited unnamed senior police sources as rubbishing the Unquiet Graves film broadcast on RTÉ last Wednesday week.... Read more »

CELTIC 0 — MI5 1

September 10, 2020

Operation ‘Arbacia’ is a joint MI5 (UK) and Special Branch/Garda Síochána sting that has targeted Celtic football supporters groups, amongst others, as part... Read more »