Category: Politics
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ONE OF THE ‘GREATEST’. Jeffrey Donaldson was Jim Molyneaux’s personal assistant. Molyneaux was linked to a convicted Kincora child rapist, in a British Army document. Molyneaux led the Unionist Party, 1979-95.
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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Abuse of Privilege: the former DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, wrongfully alleged that a Garda mole was involved in the murder of two RUC officers by the IRA. By Deirdre Younge.
In April 2000 Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the DUP, stood up in the House of Commons and made the heinous allegation on live television that former Special Branch sergeant in Dundalk Garda Station, Owen Corrigan, had colluded in the murders of Chief Superintendent Harry Breen, Commander H Division, and Superintendent Bob Buchanan, while…
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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 3. Margaret Thatcher and William Whitelaw cover-up child abuse.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1, 2 and 4 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.] Chapter 8. Framing Colin Wallace for Manslaughter. 113. The Home Secretary (former NI Secretary) and Deputy Prime Minister. On 7 July 1980,…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 2.
By David Burke. [Volumes 1, 3 and 4, 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.] Chapter 4. A Clash of Interests. 040. Stepping on the toes of MI5. The British Army was not aware that William McGrath,…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 1 of Covert History Ireland’s new ebook.
By David Burke. [Volumes 2-4 of this ebook can be found by clicking on the top section of this page (purple lettering) which will take you to the home page.] Introduction: the fish rots from the head. The United Kingdom is paying a ghastly price for the decades during which the State turned a blind…
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Prince Harry’s Red Line. By David Burke.
1. Prince Harry lets his enemies at Buckingham Palace off the ABC sex scandal hook When Prince Harry appeared on Netflix recently, he complained about a whispering campaign directed against him and his wife, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, by a cabal of racist officials at Buckingham Palace. He asserted that the cabal turned…
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The good, the bad and the grotesquely ugly: political priests, garda deference to the Church and the child abuse vice ring at Blackrock College. By David Burke.
Part 1: The Catholic Church and its Friends in High Places in Ireland. 1. Godless charlatans. There were at least three types of priests in the Holy Ghost Order: the good, the bad and the grotesquely ugly. The ‘good’ were those who had a true vocation. They were – and are – men of unfathomable decency.…
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The Mountbatten dossier, an ebook by David Burke.
1. Outline allegation made. More detailed account awaited. On 17 October 2022 Sharon O’Neill of the Sunday Life newspaper in Belfast reported that an alleged victim of child sex abuse had named Lord Louis Mountbatten as one of his tormentors. His name is Arthur Smyth and he was a temporary resident of Kincora in the 1970s. Kincora…
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From the vaults: British informers penetrated Irish American groups. By James O’Shea.
On 9 September 2016, James O’Shea of the Irish Central published a report which revealed that British spies had penetrated Irish-American groups in the 1980s. The strap under the title declared: “Recently released British/Northern Ireland Office (NIO) State Papers have given further insight into how the British Embassy spied on Irish-Americans.” The story is reproduced…
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From the Vaults: Britain’s lies about the Irish National Caucus (INC) and MacBride Principles.
The article reproduced below was written by Fr. Sean McManus, President of the Irish National Caucus. It first appeared in the Irish Echo on 19 October 2016. Fr McManus has kindly granted us permission to republish it. The “Dublin Government, all of the parties in the South, plus the SDLP, and for a while Sinn…
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Operation Kenova Part 1.
UPDATE: Freddie Scappaticci has passed away but Operation Kenova’s work goes on. Jon Boutcher’s first report is completed and on the PSNI’s ‘desk’. Now he is Chief Constable of the PSNI, Boutcher has left a decision on its publication to a designated police officer. SECOND UPDATE: The PSNI have announced they will publish Operation Kenova’s…
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John Hume was the victim of a campaign of character assassination. It was perpetrated by the British Secret Service, MI6, and their colleagues in the IRD, a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office. Hume was also placed under MI5 surveillance in Dublin with the assistance of the Gardaí.
An ebook by David Burke. An official portrait of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume is to be unveiled in Westminster today. A sculpture of him was put on display at the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this year. The new portrait by Colin Davidson – which is magnificent – will hang in Portcullis…
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A declassified UK memo on John Hume exposes the interest of PM John Major’s top civil servants in “possible press stories regarding John Hume’s private life”.
By David Burke. A memo released from Britain’s National Archives in 2020 revealed discussions at the apex of the British government about salacious rumours relating to John Hume’s private life. It was sent to Sir Robin Butler, Cabinet Secretary to John Major’s government, and also to Major’s private secretary, Sir Alex Allan. Allan is not…
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Technology neutralises our neutrality. Irish infrastructure used in US Drone strikes. By David Waldron.
Margaretta D’Arcy found herself jailed in January 2014 on the back of a protest she mounted at Shannon Airport in 2012. What was she protesting about? US troop aircraft using Shannon as a stopover on their journey to the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan among other things. D’Arcy is a rare stalewart against the steady…
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The Libyan connection. By Deirdre Younge
The Kingsberry civil action. The High Court in Belfast has granted permission for the sons of a former member of the UDA William Kingsberry, shot dead by the IRA in 1991, to sue Libya for supplying the kalashnikiov assault rifle used by the IRA unit that killed him. Other victims were killed or injured in…
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Prince Philip’s illicit sex life was monitored by Soviet spies.
Introduction. The Russian secret service, the FSB, has access to a set of dusty old KGB files. They describe the sexual antics of the British aristocracy, including those of the late Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The information was gathered by Soviet era spies in the London of the late 1950s and early 1960s.…
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According to the report by Sir George Terry, 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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Ireland’s digital pathways are being used to launch drone attacks. By David Waldron.
The debate in Ireland about joining NATO, or some sort of an EU military arrangement, is now on the political agenda like never before. Pro-neutrality advocates argue that the country is sleep walking into a military alignment of one sort or another with Western military powers. They point to the fact that US air force…
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Spying on the prodigal prince and his American wife. Harry and Megan are surely the targets of surveillance by His Majesty’s secret services. MI6 reported to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II for 70 years. By David Burke.
Introduction. Queen Elizabeth II received briefings from fifteen chiefs of the British Secret Service during her 70 year reign. In the modern era the communications of Prince Harry and his American wife are surely being monitored by Britain’s vast espionage network, in particular, GCHQ. 1. Royal briefings. Richard Moore, the Chief of the British…
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A reckless disregard for our security. By Gerard Humphreys, former army officer.
The Constitution of Ireland declares Ireland to be a sovereign independent democratic state. This declaration of sovereignty means that the State is not subject to any power or government. But sovereignty to be recognised in International Law brings with it rights and duties. International law is based upon the concept of the state and the…
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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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Silent Defenders. By Ciarán MacAirt.
In a whitewashed barn decked out with Ulster flags, Union Jacks and pictures of the Queen, their leader in charge of this meeting sat at an old table. He pressed a button on a tape recorder. A voice boomed out: I address you as the commander in chief of the organisation, Silent Defenders. Author Ciarán…