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Stacks 2.0 Blockchain Set to Go Live on Mainnet Reading Time: 3min read The year 2021 has started off on an incredibly good note for the crypto industry as Bitcoin and others hit all-time highs. Carrying that momentum further is the revolutionary Stacks project (you may recognize it as Blockstack) which launches their  Stacks 2.0 blockchain on January 14. Stacks 2.0 is a layer-1 blockchain that uses Bitcoin blockchain as a secure base upon which developers can build secure apps and smart contr...

Comprehensive Investigation needed into Belturbet bombing of December 1972 Reporter: );  ); Cavan Monaghan Fianna Fáil TD Brendan Smith has renewed a call for a proper, full and comprehensive investigation into the Belturbet bombing of 28th December 1972, which caused the deaths of two teenagers Geraldine O’Reilly, aged 15, and Patrick Stanley, aged 16. Deputy Smith said, "This is the 48th anniversary of an awful tragedy where two innocent teenagers lost their lives and many others were i...

My last column before Christmas is a plum pudding from which I will pluck out some sweet plums and a few bitter almonds. First plum: the Cork Holly Bough, which carries a fine picture of a relieved and happy Micheál Martin with his family, probably taken after he was finally reunited with them after his long Covid separation. It also carries my modest piece on the politics of Niall Tóibín, who in New York once reflected that if Jewish comedians could make jokes about the Holocaust, surely w...

Family of Offaly teenager killed by bomb still seeking justice after nearly 50 years Reporter: 17 Dec 2020 RIGHT: Patrick Stanley was only 16 when he was killed in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972. );  ); THE family of a 16-year-old Clara teenager who died in a bomb blast in Belturbet, Co Cavan on December 28, 1972, are still fighting for justice for their brother 47 years later. An RTE Investigates programme which aired last Monday night told the story of Patrick ...

He was only sorry for any offence caused, if you happened to be sensitive enough to take offence. There was no mention of the pain revisited on relatives, nor recognition that he had been hailing mass death as military achievement. And then he hurried on to praise his own record and achievements. Ironically, however, it happened that another Stanley terrorism controversy was raised earlier in the Dáil — one which reflects the cost in human life to this State of the Provisional IRA’s parami...

An RTE documentary is set to reveal new evidence that British security forces failed to act on information before the explosion of a car bomb in Co Cavan 48 years ago. On December 28, 1972, a no-warning car bomb killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Belturbet, while explosions also occurred in Co Monaghan and Co Donegal. In a special documentary tonight at 9.35pm on RTE One, Belturbet: A Bomb That Time Forgot, will reveal a lack of trust between police services north and south. The RT...

The Belturbet bomb: an atrocity that time forgot RTÉ Investigates has uncovered a series of new details that shed light on a 1972 car bombing that killed two teenagers in Co Cavan. • 3 Feb 2021 RTÉ Investigates Sculptor Mel French regards the bronze statue in Belturbet as her most personal project. Two handsome figures – a long-haired schoolgirl with dancing shoes and an athletic young man with a football at his feet – face out onto Main Street. These sculptures represent two teenagers...

TV Editor The latest from RTÉ Investigates explores a loyalist car bomb attack that killed two teenagers, Virgin Media One looks at notorious gangster John Gilligan, Feast of Thrones returns, and theres the finale of Nigellas Cook, Eat, Repeat . . . Pick of the Day RTÉ Investigates: Belturbet, A Bomb That Time Forgot, 9.35pm, RTÉ One This special programme looks at a report on the attack by loyalist paramilitaries in Belturbet, Co Cavan, on December 28, 1972, when a car bomb killed teenagers...

Bombing that killed Offaly teenager to feature on RTE Investigates Reporter: );  ); In 1972, just three days after Christmas, a no-warning car bomb killed two teenagers and injured nine others in Belturbet Co.Cavan.  In a special documentary next Monday night, December 14, RTÉ Investigates uncovers a crippling lack of trust between police services north and south, questions the political will to bring those behind the Belturbet bomb to justice, and reveals new evidence that British secu...