About 15 years ago I spoke to a member of the RUC who was then based on the Loyalist Shankill Road. He said his job fell into two distinct roles. In Nationalist Ardoyne, he was a soldier; frequently lying flat …

The book that most people have been awaiting all summer has finally arrived. We first picked up on it back in July when the author was interviewed by Jack Holland. Ed Moloney’s book aims to be the definative work, hoping …

At the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1998 the paramilitary’s political representatives were some of its staunchest supporters. So, David Gordon asks, what happened? Includes good coverage of the three main groupings; UDA, UVF and the LVF. BTW thanks …

Deireann Eoghan Ó Néill: “Ba é an t-ionsaí ar Jim Gray i mBéal Feirste Thoir, an tseachtain seo caite, an chéad ionsaí ar Bhriogáidire de chuid an UDA ó cuireadh struchtúr na mBriogáidirí ar bun ag deireadh na 1970í agus …

I mbun an abhair, maígheann Robert McMillan; “Tá an bharúil ag scaipeadh fríd Rialtas na hÉireann agus Rialtas na Breataine féin nach fiú Trimble a shábháil. Ní raibh sé ábalta barúlacha a mhúnlú i dtreo a pholasaithe féin agus chaill …

The Belfast Telegraph letters page has long been colonised by Unionist correspondents who feel bitterly let down that Sinn Fein were ever let into government. Yesterday however, several pro-Agreement or even ambivalent voices, for the most part took the floor. …

David McKittrick looks darkly at the future ahead. He opens by suggesting that the recent motion passed at the UUC has: “…no obvious wriggle room, it commits Trimble and his Unionist ministers to resigning immediately from the power-sharing executive unless …

Brian Kennaway, former convenor of the Orange Order’s education committee spoke to the annual gathering of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Whilst suggesting that the two organsations had much in common, he also dealt with the obvious differences: “Tolerance does …

Thanks to Paul Dunne at Shamrockshire Eagle for this previously unpublished account of the events of Bloody Sunday. It was reproduced in the London Review of Books last July, alongside his own more recent account of appearing before the Saville …

Looks like the minister for roads in Northern Ireland may face prosecution for blocking one of them.