Article Category: Hush Hush

WILLIE FRAZER’S RECORD

July 2, 2020

Charlie Flanagan’s final act as justice minister last week was to warn the Dáil of the continued threat from republican paramilitary organisations in... Read more »

TRUMP OBLIGES LONDON

June 18, 2020

The 1988 state-sponsored assassination attempt on Belfast man Malachy McAllister and his family is key to understanding the British government’s pursuit of McAllister... Read more »

COVERT COVID FORCES

June 4, 2020

The deployment of a British army internet warfare unit – 77th Brigade – in Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings’s response to alleged Covid-19... Read more »

MURDOCH’S HACKS AND HACKERS

May 21, 2020

The idea that a veteran journalist might also be a state spy is unfortunately not as farfetched as it sounds. Former News of... Read more »

GERALDINE BYRNE NASON’S DIMPLOMACY

May 21, 2020

OUR WOMAN at the United Nations, Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason – recently reported as having a sharp spat with Ireland’s military advisor to... Read more »

THE OFFICIAL LINE

May 7, 2020

‘OPERATION SPLASH’ was a 1970s arms importation op by the Official Republican Movement organised by Séamus Costello and Cathal Goulding. That’s according to... Read more »

THE DANGER OF ‘GOING NORTH’

April 23, 2020

THE RECENT murder of psychopath Robbie Lawlor in Belfast has generated a lot of lurid headlines, but the media missed the all-Ireland realpolitik... Read more »

THE RUC’S PROXIES

April 9, 2020

THE COVERT intelligence operations carried out by RUC Special Branch during the Troubles are still beyond the reach of public investigation. One case... Read more »

SPOOKS AT THE SHELBOURNE

March 26, 2020

DOUBLE AGENT – the new book by British agent in the IRA Peter Keeley – is remarkably similar to his 2006 publication, Unsung... Read more »

‘DISSIDENT’ ATTACKS ON SF

February 27, 2020

GIVEN THE requirement to paint Sinn Féin rallies as somehow sinister and threatening, little attention has been given to the more substantial threats... Read more »

WHO WIELDED THE STAKEKNIFE?

February 13, 2020

Operation Kenova’s investigations into the so-called Stakeknife affair have now, inevitably, led it to turn its gaze upon RUC Special Branch. Given that... Read more »

MIAMI SHOWBAND: NEW EVIDENCE

January 16, 2020

SEISMIC NEW evidence regarding the 1975 Miami Showband massacre will be revealed at Belfast High Court in the coming months by bass player... Read more »

WHO REALLY RAN STAKEKNIFE?

December 12, 2019

The new Glenanne Gang terror probe announced recently has attracted a surprisingly high level of support from collusion campaigners. But the fact that... Read more »

LORD BEW DISAPPEARS

November 28, 2019

Paul Bew, or ‘Baron Bew of Donegore’, played a key role in the now discredited Boston Tapes project. However, so far, Bew –... Read more »

LOYALIST THREATS

October 31, 2019

THERE IS something ironic about PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne’s unprecedented political intervention last week, with his warnings about loyalist violence in the... Read more »

WILLIE FRAZER’S ‘VICTIMHOOD’

October 16, 2019

Justice Minster Charlie Flanagan’s praise for Loyalist killer Willie Frazer, now deceased, looks a little misjudged. Flanagan’s posthumous eulogy to Frazer was posted... Read more »

ALL-IRELAND KINAHANS

October 3, 2019

AN EAST European 9mm Makarov semi-automatic pistol, or PM, is not one traditionally associated with gangland crime here in Ireland. However, the formerly... Read more »

MOUNTBATTEN AND WARRENPOINT

September 5, 2019

THERE IS nothing in the latest book about Lord Louis Mountbatten, The Mountbattens, that explains how the IRA was able to assassinate him... Read more »

CAPTAIN NAIRAC’S ACTIVITIES

August 22, 2019

Last week, the head of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains (ICLVR) Geoff Knupfer was busy pouring cold water on... Read more »