Category: RUC
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Molehunt.
INTRODUCTION: MI5 and MI6 enjoyed an excellent working relationship with C3, Garda intelligence, while Chief Superintendent Larry Wren led it, 1971-79. Wren was removed from C3 by Garda Commissioner Patrick McLaughlin in 1979. McLaughlin appointed Joe Ainsworth, an assistant Garda Commissioner, to take over from Wren. Patrick McLaughlin ordered Joe Ainsworth to ‘find out what…
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Double Standard
Introduction. In Dáil Éireann, Taoiseach Micheál Martin called on the British Government to name Agent Stakeknife, who he says is known to be Freddie Scappaticci. This transparency and openness, Martin believes, will help relatives of those killed by the IRA’s brutal Internal Security Unit, led by agent Stakeknife, among others. His appeal followed calls by…
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The Resistance Men.
© Deirdre Younge. Introduction. ‘What were they trying to do around here .. create civil war?‘ (Willie Frazer, referring to the intelligence services operating in the 1970s in Armagh. (2016)) The British Government is introducing new Legacy legislation and has reached an agreement with the Irish Government on the issue. Inquests are to restart but…
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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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A Walk on the Dark Side. [WebBook.]
Part 1. British Agents in Ireland. The PPS in Northern Ireland will not charge an unnamed agent who worked undercover in Northern Ireland for UK intelligence services. This is despite the fact he admitted to carrying out murders in the course of working undercover. The agent’s admission was made while instructing intelligence officers in spycraft.…
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Running with Wolves. The questions the former RUC will face over their failure to prevent the Omagh massacre. MI5 appears undaunted. [WebBook]
Introduction: Peter Keeley and the Omagh Bomb. Q – Can I put it to you: he is a bit of a Newry wide boy who was involved in the IRA …And the reason he was involved in the IRA was because he was a Newry wide boy? A – Most likely. Q – And the…
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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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Dublin-Monaghan bombings. [WebBook]
Introduction: Dublin City was rocked by three car bomb explosions on 17 May 1974. The devices detonated in a coordinated fashion at approximately 5.30; all within ninety seconds of each other. Twenty-six people and a full-term unborn child (Baby Doherty) were slaughtered. No warnings were provided. Ninety minutes later, a fourth car bomb exploded in…
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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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Omagh.
The Real IRA bombed Omagh in 1998. Twenty-nine people perished. Deirdre Younge, a former Current Affairs Editor in RTE, wrote this article for Village magazine in November 2021. Since then, the British Government has established an inquiry into the atrocity. It is being chaired by Judge Alan Turnbull. Peter Keeley, a British agent who had…
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False flag.
In the September 2019 edition of Village magazine, Deirdre Younge described how MI5 fabricated a Loyalist arms importation to frighten the Dublin government. The MI5 ‘false flag’ operation was launched in 1993, on the verge of an IRA ceasefire Deirdre Younge was a reporter with Hibernia magazine and a Current Affairs Programmes Editor in RTE…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 1 [WebBook.]
By David Burke. 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 eye to a wide spectrum of sexual offences committed by the elite of British society. At least three forces became the instruments of amoral politicians and their…
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Shooting to kill? [WebBook]
Author Michael O’Connell has long had an interest in the Stalker affair. He had the opportunity of discussing it at length with John Stalker during a visit the latter made to Nottingham in 1989, after his retirement from the Manchester police. O’Connell had developed his own sources about the killing of the six civilians described in this…
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Diverting Smithwick. By Deirdre Younge.(2016)
In December 2013, the Smithwick Tribunal produced a report into alleged Garda collusion with the IRA in the murder of two RUC officers, Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan. It made a finding of ‘collusion’ yet failed to provide the name of the alleged ‘colluder’. Deirdre Younge’s 2016 Village article delved into the bizarre finding. Her article…
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s mentor.
1. RESIGNATION. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 2021-24, has been charged with historical sexual offences. He resigned as leader of the DUP on Friday, 29 March 2024. His wife has also been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. 2. FAMILY VALUES Donaldson portrayed himself…
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The Collusion Spectrum. By Deirdre Younge.
In 2019 the BBC’s investigative ‘Spotlight’ programme added significantly to a body of evidence exposing widespread collusion across the Loyalist spectrum from the DUP to the UVF to MI5. Deirdre Younge revealed more in an article in Village magazine. It can be downloaded here:
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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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Killusion.
This story, published in Village magazine in November 2016, provides details about the career of Peter Keeley, a British Intelligence mole in the Provisional IRA. Keeley wrote a book under the pseudonym Kevin Fulton. A pdf copy of Killusion can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Some readers may find there is a…
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Life and Death in South Armagh. [WebBook.]
Deirdre Younge is a former journalist and Current Affairs Programmes Editor in RTE Television. She is now a writer and media production consultant. Part 1. Garda Sergeant Owen Corrigan, a victim of conflicting – and false – claims he was an IRA mole. This is a story about deception that runs through decades. It shows…
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Dirty Linen.
A Review Essay by Christopher Stanley of “Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place” by Martin Doyle. Published by Merrion Press (€24.99/£22.99 Hardback) 368 pages.. Christopher Stanley is Litigation Consultant, KRW LAW LLP, Belfast and was a Legal Aid Practitioner Group/Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Public Law Lawyer of the Year Nominee 2017…
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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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Scappaticci’s Dublin Payday.
‘He was the Golden Egg, something that was very important to the Army. We were terribly cagey about Fred’ – General Sir John Wilsey ex GOC N.I 2012. Jon Boutcher’s first report for Operation Kenova, an investigation into an agent called Stakeknife or Steaknife, now known to be the late Freddie Scappaticci, has passed the security…
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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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From the Vaults: NOW magazine May 1990. Linking MI5 agents to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 1974. By Frank Doherty and David Burke.
At the end of the 1980s, the late Frank Doherty set up NOW magazine. It published a number of stories about MI5 malfeasance. Two of them stick out in my mind. First, one which linked Mountbatten to the abuse of boys at Kincora which Frank and I wrote together. MI5 ran Kincora as a ‘honey…
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McGurks:
Fifteen civilians – including two children – were massacred in a no-warning UVF bomb attack on 4 December 1971 at McGurk’s Bar Massacre. Even before all the victims were identified, the British state briefed the media with lies about the massacre and its innocent victims. They claimed the pub was controlled by the IRA and that…
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An appalling vista: disturbing indications of Kitson’s foreknowledge of a third massacre of innocent civilians.Tragedy took fifteen lives including two children. By David Burke.
New evidence has emerged about the UVF’s bombing of McGurk’s Bar in Belfast in December 1971. The explosion caused the entire structure of the premises to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians – including two children – and wounding seventeen more. It was the deadliest attack in Belfast during the Troubles. Brigadier (later General Sir) Frank…
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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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