Tag: DUP
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Donaldson Dossier (Webbook)
Introduction: A lesson in real-life politics for slow learners. The Kincora Boys’ Home child sex abuse scandal erupted in 1980. It never went away. There are links between it and the case of Jeffrey Donaldson, the former DUP leader who was arrested in 2024 on child abuse charges, convicted on 22 June 2026, and sentenced…
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Abuse of Privilege.
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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Former British ‘PSYOPS’ officer Colin Wallace sues the MoD.
By Joseph de Burca. Introduction to Village’s online pamphlet on the Colin Wallace Affair. The Tory Government of Boris Johnson is routinely accused of deceiving the House of Commons. Many British commentators behave as if this is a new low in their democratic history. Yet, there is nothing unusual about the situation.…
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Thomas Passmore.
On 16 September 2019, Paul Graham told RTE’s ‘Liveline’ that he had been sexually abused by a senior figure in the Orange Order. Although not named, the abuser was Thomas Passmore, the County Grand Master of Belfast Loyal Orange Lodge. That Passmore was a paedophile will not come as news to the Northern Ireland Office,…
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From the Vaults Ted Heath:
In the wake of last week’s revelations about the inquiry into former British Prime Minister Ted Heath, Joseph de Búrca looks at a scandal which implicated figures on both sides of the Irish Sea.
