As a recent poll showed, Fine Gael lost the room when it ended the eviction ban. In fact, it lost the whole house. It bet the mortgage on private landlords re-entering the market if the eviction ban was lifted.
The prime suspect in a border bombing which killed two children 50 years ago has denied any involvement in the atrocity and called on those responsible to come clean.
Families of those who were killed in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings say they need truth and justice. Taoiseach Micheál Martin will be among those attending a commemoration in Dublin city this morning marking 48 years since the atrocity. 33 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in four blasts in Dublin and Monaghan – 300 others […]
Pat Flanagan: If you want a conspiracy in Ireland our past is the place to look
RTE did a powerful documentary about the Belturbet bombing, which claimed the lives of Geraldine O’Reilly, 15, and 16-year-old Paddy Stanley
Belturbet Bomb (Image: Paddy Ronaghan/ RTE)
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A FORMER Fermanagh Unionist Councillor has been described as “a leading member of the UDA” who enlisted the help of a British Army officer to enable the Loyalist paramilitary group blow up Aghalane Bridge in 1972. Jack Leahy, a well-known publican in Lisnaskea and a member of the Ulster Unionist group on Fermanagh District Council, was identified by Captain Vernon Rees in an audio interview taped by the Imperial War Museum. Rees admitted that he agreed to Leahy’s request to keep troops away from the bridge for four hours while Loyalists bombed Aghalane. Furthermore, Rees – responsible for British Army security along the south Fermanagh Border in the early 1970s – passed his agreement through Special Branch.