Tag: kincora
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PODCAST: The Kincora child rape and murder gang.
By David Burke. Darragh McColgan recently asked me to appear on his Rebels and Rogues podcast to talk about the Kincora scandal. I accepted because McColgan is fearless and lets his guests tell the raw, uncensored truth. The first of the two-part interview that resulted can be found on YouTube by clicking here: One of…
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Phoenix, Part IV.
The last edition of The Phoenix appeared on 5 June 2026. In this, the last of this series, we look at the spooky stories that appeared in The Phoenix in 2026. There were two articles about Sean O’Callaghan and the murder of John Cocoran. This is the second of the pair. There was a story…
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Prime Suspects.
Introduction: Margaret Thatcher, MI5 and the cold-blooded murder of an Irish lawyer. The independent public inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane hopes to examine ‘to what extent were his killers encouraged, assisted, protected or directed’ by the British state, at least according to barrister Matthew Hill, its lead counsel. He added that, ‘There is…
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Bring back The Phoenix Part II: 50+ espionage and dirty trick stories from 2024.
Click on the link below to read a selection of stories from The Phoenix 2024, including: Brig. Frank Kitson’s dirty war; what really happened on Bloody Sunday (not the nonsense in the Savile Inquiry report); Patrick Crinnion, MI6’s spy inside the Gardaí; the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; Barrie Gane of MI6; Freddie Scappaticci; the Kincora…
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Bring back The Phoenix. In the meantime here are approximately 30 dirty trick intelligence stories from 2020 to 2023.
The Phoenix ceased publication in June 2026. The magazine was the only real source of articles about collusion, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, Kincora, MI5 dirty tricks and attacks on Irish neutrality, etc, on Irish newsstands. It has to be brought back – somehow. Otherwise, we will be relying on The Irish Times and other similar publications…
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Andy Burnham (Webbook)
By David Burke. Introduction. In the early 1970s, Colin Wallace tried to expose the horrific sex abuse at Kincora Boys’ Home. For doing so, he was driven out of his job at British Army HQ at Lisburn by a series of dirty tricks, perpetrated by MI5. He had served as Senior Information Officer at Lisburn…
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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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Mooney (Webbook)
Hugh Mooney, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, worked at The Irish Times before becoming the UK’s foremost black propagandist in the early 1970s. Among his many successes, he distorted the truth about what happened on Bloody Sunday, the bombing of McGurk’s bar and circulated smears about John Hume. The Bloody Sunday and John Hume…
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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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The Prince and the Pauper (Webbook).
1. A FOG OF FEAR AT BREFFNI NURSERY 1969-1974. INCARCERATING TODDLERS WHO CRIED AT NIGHT IN A PITCH-BLACK BOILER ROOM. ALAN AGED 0-6. 2. RAPE AT WILLIAMSON HOUSE, 1974-1978. ALAN KERR WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ON HIS FIRST NIGHT AT WILLIAMSON HOUSE. HE WAS ONLY 6 YEARS OLD. ALAN AGED 6-9. 3. MISERY AND MORE SEXUAL…
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Kneeling Nation.
1. The Pervert Prince, Epstein and Prince Andrew. 2.‘He had no boundaries.’ 3. A sex pest, bully and a boor. 4. Why can’t he be told to ‘sod off’? 5. The stamp of a thief. 6. Above the law: a licence to commit crime. 7. He was let off on the grounds: ‘I’m in a…
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Kincora
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.” Proverbs 31:8-9 (NLV) Judge Hughes said of his inquiry into Kincora Boys’ Home and other care homes, in the 1980s that, “The conduct of the police, or…
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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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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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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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Mountbatten exposed, 1990.
1. Media disinterest allowed child abuse to continue. 2. Robin Bryans. 3. A wider vice network than just Kincora. It included Portora Royal, Williamson House and Bawnmore. 4. Mountbatten and Portora. 5. Lord Rosse of Birr Castle. 6. A fear of certain elements of the press in the Republic of Ireland. 7. A pair of…
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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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Returning the Serve, the Dublin-Monaghan bombings of 1974. [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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The Mountbatten Dossier. [WebBook]
UPDATE: 30 June 2026: Richard Kerr, a victim of child sex abuse perpetrated by Lord Louis Mountbatten and others, has accepted the sum of £100,000 in compensation from the Crown. Richard Kerr was abused by Mountbatten at Classiebawn, Co. Sligo, in 1977. Kerr’s case was that a paedophile ring subjected him to years of rape…
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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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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s mentor.
1. THE CONVICTED CHILD RAPIST WHO LED THE DUP. 2. FAMILY VALUES 3. A COMMENDABLE NEW DEPARTURE FOR THE PSNI UNDER JON BOUTCHER. 4. THE COVER-UP OF VIP SEX ABUSE 5. SIR JEFFREY DONALDSON’S POLITICAL MENTOR. 6. ENOCH POWELL AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND REVIEW INTO HISTORICAL CHILD SEX ABUSE. 7. BELT AND BUCKLE, ENOCH…
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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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Reputations in tatters.
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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The Mystery of the Missing Mountbatten Diaries
By Andrew Lownie. In 2015 I started researching my biography ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’. Little did I know then that six years later it would have locked me into a marathon legal battle with the Government and Southampton University. My quest was to find out what had happened to the personal diaries of…
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Operation Clockwork Orange Vol 2.
By David Burke. Chapter 4. A Clash of Interests. 040. Stepping on the toes of MI5. The British Army was not aware that William McGrath, the commander of Tara, a Loyalist paramilitary organisation, was a critical player in MI5’s endeavours to spy on Unionist paedophiles. To the military, he was a terrorist and, therefore, a…
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Best (and worst).
Dolphin Square VIP sex abuse. Dolphin Square was opened in London’s Pimlico in 1936. It soon became a magnet for all sorts of scandal and intrigue: espionage, political, sexual, not to mention mysterious deaths. ‘Scandal at Dolphin Square’ provides a riveting account of the lives of a rolling maul of fascinating and complex characters. As…
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‘Traitor King’.
By David Burke. Andrew Lownie will be known to many for the depth of his research into the life of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his wife, especially the former’s abuse of boys in the Republic of Ireland. During his research into Mountbatten, Lownie tried, and failed, to gain access to Garda logs showing who had…
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Terry report.
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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Deceitful Terry Report.
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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Prince Andrew has no need to sweat after publication of the Janner paedophile report.
Prince Andrew is hardly in a sweat after the publication of the report on Lord Greville Janner by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). Janner was a paedophile who abused boys and girls. IICSA has confirmed what has been known for decades, namely that witness statements taken by the British police went…
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Drew Harris.
By Joseph de Burca. 1. Moloney and Kinchin-White When the Kincora Boys’ Home child abuse scandal first broke, Ed Moloney was one of a number of journalists who reported details about it in the press. Now, Moloney and James Kinchin-White have teamed up to shine a light on the role of the RUC in the…
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Andrew Lownie.
By Andrew Lownie. A few weeks ago the Irish Times ran an article on the death of Mountbatten linked to the new series of The Crown in which the murder features in the opening episode. As the author of the most recent biography ‘The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves’, I was interviewed for the piece on…
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Robert Fisk.
By David Burke. It is no exaggeration to say that Robert Fisk, who has passed away, was one of the finest journalists of the last half-century. He reported on the Troubles during the 1970s for The Times of London before it was taken over by Rupert Murdoch, produced a book on the 1974 Ulster Workers…
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Chris Ryder.
The legacy of Chris Ryder, the former Sunday Times (ST) journalist who passed away on Friday 2 October 2020, is not one to be proud of: he was one of a number of journalists who helped MI5 and the RUC’s Special Branch cover up the rape of children who had fallen into the grip of…
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Carl Beech.
By David Burke. Introduction. The documentary on the liar and fraud Carl Beech raises the most serious questions about the competence of the BBC which broadcasted it on 24 August. For years Beech masqueraded as the survivor of a VIP sex-abuse ring that allegedly engaged in the rape, torture and murder of children. During his…
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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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Dial MI5 for Murder
HAS SPOOK-TURNED-THRILLER WRITER DAME STELLA RIMMINGTON FORGOTTEN WHAT IS IN MI5’s TOP SECRET FILES? Dame Stella Rimmington has just published another of her bestselling Liz Carlyle spy yarns The Moscow Sleepers in time for the Christmas market. In it, the redoubtable Liz is set against some very nasty men from Russia. This has all been…
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Guy Burgess in Ireland
The paperback edition of Andrew Lownie’s highly regarded Stalin’s Englishman is now on sale with updates which did not appear in the hardback version. It is a riveting biography of the notorious Eton- and Cambridge-educated British spy and traitor Guy Burgess, bristling with new information based on first-hand sources including hitherto unpublished letters and files. Significantly,…
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John Imrie.
John L.L. Imrie, formerly of MI5 and the Northern Ireland Office (NIO), died in June of 2017 without a whisper of his passing reaching the ears of the press. Imrie had the unique distinction of being the only British official ever linked to the Kincora Boys’ Home sex abuse scandal by name in the House…
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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.
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