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The British government has never accepted responsibility for its collusion with Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary forces during the Troubles. This historical legacy issue will not go away and has lasting effects.
IMAGINE that Police Scotland or the Metropolitan Police were found to have used a serial killer as an informer. What would happen? How many high…
I’VE been investigating the Dirty War in Northern Ireland for 25 years. So I was understandably taken aback the other day when I uncovered that…
Kingsberry case The High Court in Belfast granted permission in early July for the family of a former member of the UDA, William Kingsberry – shot dead in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. New approach The Kingsberry case, which is civil not criminal, is a new approach to gaining compensation for those killed or injured by Libyan-supplied matériel – and will be the first of many. Kevin Winters of KRW Law is bringing a number of civil cases against the Libyan State to gain compensation for victims. The PSNI initially refused to conf...
WAS it the secret war carried out by British agents inside the IRA which brought the Troubles to a close? Did British intelligence manipulate Sinn Fein into peace? Did either side really “win” the war in Ulster? Northern Ireland turned 100 years old this week. It is a fitting time to reassess the Troubles. Like most conflicts, it’s only with the passage of time that the violence which shook the north of Ireland and the rest of Britain for 30 years can begin to be understood. We know why the Troubles began – Northern Ireland was essentially a sectarian state, the Catholic populat...