Category: Kincora
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BBC.
Chris Moore posted a story on Ed Moloney’s Broken Elbow website in 2023. It blew the lid off attempts by MI5, the RUC, and BBC management to suppress vitally important facts about the Kincora scandal. The story subsequently appeared in his new book on the Kincora scandal, ‘Kincora, Britain’s Shame‘ (2025). MI5 had plenty of…
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Spoiler alert.
Introduction: ‘Nobody’s Girl‘, the memoirs of the late Virginia Giuffre (née Roberts), has just been published. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked Giuffre to Andrew Mountbatten Winsor for sexual abuse as a minor. She committed suicide last April. On the same day her book appeared, a slew of similar-looking publications went on sale on Amazon…
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A VOICE FOR THE LOST BOYS SILENCED BY STATE SANCTIONED ABUSE.
Christopher Stanley reviews “Kincora: Britain’s Shame: Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home Sex Abuse Scandal and the British Cover-Up” by Chris Moore. Published by Merrion Press (£17.99 Paperback) 276 pages. To the memory of Stephen Waring who committed suicide or was murdered. [1] In 2020 I published an opinion piece called The Accused and the…
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Roy Garland.
In the 1960s Roy Garland played a part in setting up TARA alongside William McGrath. McGrath was a leading figure in the Orange Order. McGrath became the commander of Tara. Garland later discovered that McGrath was abusing children and risked his life trying to halt the abuse perpetrated at Kincora Boys’ Home by McGrath. This…
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Mountbatten exposed, 1990.
Introduction: In April 1990, a five page cover story in NOW magazine revealed how: ‘An English upper class gay network abused boys at orgies in Irish country homes and castles, according to new claims which link the vice ring with the notorious Kincora Boys Home in Belfast. The network included royal uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten,…
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The complexities of Loyalism. By Roy Garland.
A ginger group in the Orange Order known as “Cell” was led by Canon Ernest Long who said “Cell” was taken from the idea of a small seed that could influence a larger group. I assume the larger group was the Orange Order. William McGrath joined Cell in the 1960s and Canon Long, was uncomfortable…
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The Gathering Storm.
In this article, Roy Garland explains how Loyalist leaders such as William McGrath were making dire predictions about the intentions of the IRA as the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising approached. Roy Garland witnessed these developments at first hand. Soon, he was dedicating himself to the peace process believing in the “interconnectednes between everyone…
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Martin O’Hagan and the Official Republican movement. By Eddie Walsh
Eddie Walsh was born and grew up in Tralee. He joined the Republican movement in 1969, and became a lifeling supporter of the Workers Party. In this article, he describes how he met Martin O’Hagan through their mutual membership of the Official Republican movement. O’Hagan went on to become a high profile investigative reporter with…
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Tara’s roots.
In this article, Roy Garland describes the origins of Tara, an armed Loyalist paramilitary organisation. Garland was once a member of Tara. It was led by William McGrath. Tara was once part of the Orange Order. It had supporters in the Republic of Ireland and later linked up with the UVF. There were also international…
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LBC
Roy Garland joined TARA as a young man. TARA was a paramilitary organisation commanded by William McGrath. Garland was also asked to join the mysterious ‘London Belfast Committee’ by McGrath. Very little is known about it. Garland turned down the offer and, hence, did not discover its inner workings. Nonetheless, he suspected it was an…
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The Mountbatten Dossier. [WebBook]
1. The exposure of Mountbatten. Frank Doherty and I were the first to reveal Lord Louis Mountbatten’s link to the Kincora scandal. We did so in April 1990. See Mountbatten exposed, 1990. Kincora was run by three men who were convicted of child abuse in December 1981: William McGrath, Joseph Mains and Raymond Semple. McGrath…
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Hart Report
When I first read parts of the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry, led by Sir Anthony Hart, I was shocked at the amount of disinformation in it. I spoke with the late Brian Garrett, a lawyer who was nearby. I told him I intended to take legal action against the Inquiry, but he said…
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Orange and the Green.
ROY GARLAND is the author of ‘Gusty Spence’, the acclaimed biography of the former UVF leader. Spence changed his ways and became a key participant in the peace process. Here, Roy Garland, who knew many of the key Loyalist figures of the Troubles, describes some of the preliminary steps taken on the long road that…
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Kincora death threats.
Introduction: Roy Garland was an associate of William McGrath, the infamous housefather of Kincora Boys’ Home. Garland discovered McGrath’s true nature long before McGrath was sent to work at Kincora. McGrath was a paedophile and sexual predator. Garland discovered this through his involvement in Faith House in Belfast where McGrath ran a Christian mission. Garland…
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The politicians, police officers and judges who protected a child rape network for MI5.
1. A David and Goliath battle involving the survivor of child rape. The Kincora Boys’ Home child sex abuse scandal has tarnished, if not demolished, the reputations of an array of people, including politicians, who have tried to cover it up. (See section 8 below.) Some of them will be remembered by history for nothing…
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The child sex abuse at Faith House has never been investigated. By Roy Garland, who knew William McGrath.
1. Faith House – where the future ‘house father’ of Kincora abused boys. Fewer than 30 boys are thought to have been abused at Kincora whereas one of the abusers, William McGrath, had earlier abused an unknown number, perhaps more than a hundred, and a lesser number of women, at his independent Christian Mission in…
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New Beginnings.
Roy Garland is the author of the biography of Gusty Spence, a founding member of the modern era UVF. After decades of violence, Spence embraced the peace process. In this article Roy Garland writes about some of the unlikely relationships which he saw blossom between former Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries, including Gusty Spence and Billy…
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The concealed roots of the Kincora scandal.
Introduction. A lot has been written about William McGrath, especially of his role in the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal. McGrath was convicted for some of the crimes he committed at Kincora in December 1981. The mainstream media coverage has tended to focus on McGrath’s role at the home while ignoring his long track record as…
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Donaldson and Molyneaux.
Sir Jeffery Donaldson described James Molyneaux MP (later Lord Molyneaux of Killead), as one of ‘greatest’ politicians with whom he ever worked. Molyneaux led the dominant Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), between 1979 and 1995. The praise appeared on Donaldson’s official website. Donaldson served as Molyneaux’s Personal Assistant in the 1980s. The other figure Donaldson admired…
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Collecting kompromat. [WebBook.]
Introduction. Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn, was a paedophile who abused boys on both sides of the Atlantic, including a victim from Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, called Richard Kerr. Cohn selected Kerr in Belfast and had him trafficked to Venice for sexual abuse. Kincora Boys’ Home, where Kerr lived, was run by…
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Kincora’s darkest secret.
By David Burke. Kincora Boys’ Home was demolished in 2022. One part of the complex, however, was taken down and removed decades ago, the ‘tool shed’ at the rear of the premises. It hid what I fear is the darkest of Kincora’s many black secrets, one MI5, the RUC – and now – the PSNI,…
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Download a pdf copy of Operation Clockwork Orange by David Burke.
A pdf copy of Operation Clockwork Orange by David Burke can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Some readers may find there is a space between this paragraph and the download link. David Burke is the author of three books published by Mercier Press: – ‘Deception & Lies, the Hidden History of the Arms…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 4: The Never Ending Cover-Up. MI5 will never admit what it did in Ireland.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1-3 of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will return you to the home page.] 167. The Cabinet Office knew the report into the sex abuse at Kincora Boys’ Home by Sir George Terry contained a lie. While David Calcutt…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 3. Margaret Thatcher and William Whitelaw cover-up child abuse.
By David Burke. Chapter 8. Framing Colin Wallace for Manslaughter. 113. The Home Secretary (former NI Secretary) and Deputy Prime Minister. On 7 July 1980, Jeff Edwards of London’s Evening News, revealed the Metropolitan police had passed files to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Twelve men faced up to 350 sexual offences including allegations…
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According to Sir George Terry’s report, the children at Kincora derived “sexual satisfaction or pleasure” from being raped. By David Burke.
The Terry Report (1983) has resurfaced despite claims that all copies of it had been destroyed. Aside from the fact it contained blatant lies and covered-up the abuse of children at Kincora Boys’ Home with the knowledge of MI5 and MI6, Terry engaged in a bout of victim blaming – in this instance blaming the…
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The deceitful Terry Report into Kincora.
Judge Anthony Hart published his lamentable and error strewn report into the Kincora scandal in 2017. It received little or no coverage in the media as it appeared on the same day that Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the US. The report was littered with mistakes. It even managed to contradict itself.…
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Parallels in ‘Perversion’: RUC and MI5 informers and the Arlene Arkinson and Richard Kerr cases. By Donal Lavery.
While they would seem worlds apart, their fates were all the more alike. This refers of course to the tragedies which befell young Arlene Arkinson and Richard Kerr starting when both of them were youths and culminating in two destroyed lives. Arlene was a pleasant teenage girl who seemed well-liked by her family and friends…
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