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Interview with family of Adrian Carroll

In a rare interview the brothers and sisters of Adrian Carroll have told how they continue to “remember him every day” despite the passing of four decades.

Published May 18, 2023

I fought a monster today

Black flag vigils are taking place in Dublin and elsewhere on Friday to mark the anniversary of the death of 1981 hunger striker Bobby Sands. The following piece by Sands was originally published in 1978.

Published May 4, 2023

‘Scap’, 20 years on

Following the reported death of Freddie Scappaticci, Anthony McIntyre recalls the bitter divisions over the ‘Stakeknife’ allegations that the head of the Provisional IRA’s Internal Security Unit was a British agent. For The Pensive Quill.

Published April 27, 2023

Looking forward to the next 25 years

A quarter century on from the Belfast Agreement, we look to the next 25 years, committed to work together to build a better, more prosperous future for all the people of this island.

Published April 20, 2023

The British never wanted Biden

Joe Biden’s visit to Belfast, or more accurately, a carefully restricted bit of Belfast, wasn’t the visit he intended or had hoped it to be.

Published April 20, 2023

Interview with Gerry Adams

An interview given by former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams to Freya McClements of the Irish Times to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Published April 13, 2023

Vindication of a campaign for truth and justice

A Belfast court has posthumously awarded compensation to the family of Liam Holden, who was tortured and assaulted by British soldiers in the 1970s. Documents show the use of electric shocks and sexual assault were commonly inflicted on prisoners.

Published March 30, 2023

Interview with Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin Party Leader Mary Lou McDonald recently held a wide-ranging interview with German publication ‘Der Spiegel’ about why she thinks a reunification referendum could take place within a decade.

Published March 30, 2023

The DUP and being smart

Unionists should be thanking Rishi Sunak, who has made the idea of grown-up politics and the severing of knotty political problems doable.

Published March 2, 2023

Interview with Eilish McCabe, sister of Aidan McAnespie

On the 35th anniversary of Aidan McAnespie’s murder, in the weeks after his killer was allowed to walk free after a court conviction, an interview by journalist John Scally with Eilish McCabe, Mr McAnespie’s sister, before she lost her brave battle with illness.

Published February 23, 2023

DUP are Conservative Party pawns

The people of Northern Ireland are once again collateral damage, just as we were for the last campaign of ‘getting Brexit done’.

Published February 23, 2023

John Davey

‘Big in heart and spirit’ Sinn Féin councillor John Davey was killed by loyalists in 1989, just two days after the murder of Pat Finucane.

Published February 16, 2023

Protocol defeat is huge setback for Unionism

Having already lost their case in the High Court and Court of Appeal, we can be permitted a measure of schadenfreude at the host of unionist luminaries who rolled the dice a third time only to have the Supreme Court return a unanimous verdict that the protocol is entirely legal and proper.