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Next week an inquest takes place in Belfast 47 years after what’s become known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. The British Military has always maintained that the paratroopers were fired on first by IRA gunmen but a new film out this week, ‘The Ballymurphy Precedent’, suggests otherwise.
Gary Gibbon
Professor Jim Dornan is a world renowned gynaecologist living on Northern Ireland’s “Gold Coast,” the prosperous stretch of County Down peppered with picture window residences. He’s one of Northern Ireland’s great and the good. He’s celebrated in his field. He’s from a unionist background. As it happens, he’s also father of the actor Jamie Dornan,…
The government should immediately offer financial compensation to the surviving 2,000 victims of “fundamentally flawed” child migration programmes, according to the first report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Thousands of children were sent abroad between 1945 and 1970 by charities and the Catholic church. The inquiry heard that they suffered physical and…
As the FBI investigates claims that Russian meddling helped Donald Trump become president, FactCheck looks at America’s own track record of interfering with democratic elections.
Last-ditch talks have been taking place in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare to try to find a way to end Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule. Photographs have emerged of Mr Mugabe meeting the army commander who put him under house arrest. The photos did not show first lady Grace Mugabe whose attempts to secure greater powers for herself…
Pupils at the Sion Manning catholic girls school in west London had to sit their GCSE exams in the midst of tragedy. Less than a mile from Grenfell Tower – they turned up at school the next day, while smoke still billowed from the blackened shell of the high rise block. Some had lost friends,…
The Vatican’s third highest ranking official has been charged with a series of sex offences in Australia after a two year investigation.
It was probably not exactly a meeting of minds. The leader of the western world – a climate change agnostic and a builder of walls – and the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics – an environmentalist and a man who welcomes migrants. And, while President Trump said they’d had “a fantastic meeting”, the Pope’s…
The remains of babies and young children have been found in a mass grave on the site of a former home for unmarried mothers in Ireland run by Catholic nuns.
Dame Zaha Hadid is widely regarded to have been among the greatest architects of her generation.
George Osborne insists the government is increasing the money it spends on disabled people, even as he is criticised for the latest cut. Who’s right?
A former soldier is arrested on suspicion of murdering three civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.
A majority of Northern Ireland Assembly members vote to legalise gay marriage, but the law will not be changed.
Alex Thomson
Another round of insults about who is racist and who is progressive is achieving nothing at all in the stymied, divided, impotent EU.
Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban has today said “rebellious” migrants and refugees will face arrest from next week.