Ministers giving — or worse repeating — a clear, categorical statement to the House, knowing — or reckless as to whether — it ...

How use of the army in support of the Garda rested on custom and constitutional assumption until the fuel protests changed ...

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has displayed no interest in Lord Louis Mountbatten’s links to the Anglo-Irish Vice Ring. Its members preyed upon Kincora Boys’ Home and other ...

Six months ago Zack Polanski was a lively London Assembly member known mainly for his theatre background and a tabloid ...

1. Kitson’s Private Army. Lance Corporal David Cleary was a member of the elite Support Company of the 1 st Parachute Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford reported upwards to ...

How public cash funding Expressway shadow fleet has been exposed using the State’s own real-time tracking data ...

By February 2026, the idea that Donald Trump represents an endlessly renewable force of disruption moved from hard to stomach ...

A synopsis of a fuller story covered in Village‘s print magazine. Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions ...

Deputy Peadar Tóibín, leader of Aontú, referred to Soldier F by his real name, David James Cleary, in Dáil Éireann, the Irish parliament, yesterday (9 February). Cleary was a cruel, cynical and ...

The Information Research Department (IRD) of Britain’s Foreign Office sought to smear the victims of Bloody Sunday and the McGurks bar bomb atrocity. They even went so far as to attack a group of ...

The legacy of Chris Ryder, the former Sunday Times (ST) journalist who passed away last Friday, is not one to be proud of: he was one of a number of journalists who helped MI5 and the RUC’s Special ...

In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General, Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues decided to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs ...