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Always a challenging time for the nhs and this year we started planning for winter earlier than ever before. Today were announcing £200 million, which will go to the nhs to help build extra capacity and resilience for this winter season , making sure that season, making sure that patients the care that patients can get the care that they need, but also the work were doing improve nhs were doing to improve nhs performance, results performance, which the results today is delivering for today show is delivering for patients with big improvements in ambulance times and a e times since the winter....

Political Correspondent Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the Dáil that he will pursue both the British and Northern Irish authorities regarding the no-warning car-bomb attack on Belturbet, Co Cavan, in which two teenage civilians were murdered in 1972.  Loyalist paramilitaries were responsible for the bombing which killed Geraldine O'Reilly, 15, and Paddy Stanley, 16. However there have also been allegations of collusion by British security forces in the attack.  Mr Martin told the Dáil that he would pursue the matter "with the British authorities and the authorities in Northern Ireland...

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, local girl Geraldine O'Reilly, 15, and Paddy Stanley, 16, from Clara, Co Offaly, both of whom peri...

RTÉ Investigates A military commander of British Army forces in west Fermanagh admitted to cooperating with loyalist paramilitaries in the 1972 bombing of a bridge spanning the border between Co Cavan and Co Fermanagh, RTÉ Investigates has learned. The Aghalane Bridge had been used by IRA units in a series of 1972 raids into South Fermanagh that targeted security forces, particularly local members of the Ulster Defence Regiment.  In a 2005 oral history interview with the Imperial War Museum, Retired Major Vernon Rees described being approached by Jack Leahy, a unionist councillor from Lis...

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 security forces failed to act on credible information, allowing militant loyalists to operate freely i...