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THE COMMISSION ON DEFENCE’S MEMBERS

February 24, 2022

THE COMMISSION on the Defence Forces includes retired officers from the Irish, Finnish and Norwegian defence forces and a handful of civil servants,... Read more »

IS IRELAND NEUTRAL IN MALI?

February 10, 2022

AFTER TWO coups in Mali since June 2020 the country’s present junta is now looking to push out military forces associated with both... Read more »

ETHICAL ARMS DEALERS?

January 27, 2022

A QUICK look at the ‘Purchase Orders’ of the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces published each quarter shows that a large... Read more »

DISSIDENT DISSIDENTS!

January 13, 2022

ON NOVEMBER 18, Derry republican Patrick McDaid was granted bail after his cousin agreed to provide a cash surety of £50,000. There were... Read more »

FLIGHTS OF FANCY IN SHANNON?

December 16, 2021

BASED IN Shannon Free Zone business park in Co Clare, A-techSYN (Advanced Technologies with Synergy) provides not only unmanned flights with its drones but,... Read more »

JUSTIN BARRETT IN TWO MINDS…

December 2, 2021

ON SATURDAY, November 27, almost a thousand people protested outside the GPO against Covid-19 restrictions and vaccine passports in probably the biggest gathering... Read more »

GEORGE NKENCHO: GSOC’S HIGH STAKES

November 18, 2021

THERE IS a lot riding on the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission’s (Gsoc) investigation into the killing of George Nkencho by a garda officer... Read more »

HOSTING HATE DATA

November 4, 2021

THERE HAS been quite the kerfuffle recently over Ireland being the destination of choice for data centres. EirGrid claims that data centres use... Read more »

SIMON BYRNE AND MI5’S ECONOMIC WAR

October 21, 2021

WHEN SIMON BYRNE was appointed head of the PSNI in July 2019 he showed what might be called a lack of empathy for... Read more »

STAG HUNTS AND HIGH MASS

September 23, 2021

WHEN THE referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment was passed easily in 2018 the ‘God squad’ was left reeling and right-wing Catholic activists... Read more »

GARRET, THE SPY AND KITSON’S IRISH WAR

September 9, 2021

IN A timely postscript to Cullum Macrae’s The Ballymurphy Massacre programme, author David Burke is about to publish a book on Brigadier Frank... Read more »

HAS SYRIA BEEN ZAPPED?

August 12, 2021

SURELY KATHERINE ZAPPONE doesn’t need to suffer the carping of the Shinners or Social Democrats? Sure as special envoy didn’t she take Ireland from... Read more »

RIGHT-WING SCAPEGOAT

July 29, 2021

THE RECENT Dublin Bay South (DBS) byelection has damaged the political career of Longford man James Reynolds, founder and deputy leader of the... Read more »

CYBER WAR COMES TO DUBLIN

July 15, 2021

FORMER IRISH soldier Ross Frenett founder of anti-extremist organisation Moonshot, initially based in London, aims to combat all kinds of online harm. But... Read more »

ACCENTURE’S BORDER WARS

July 1, 2021

MORE THAN 80 million people were forced from their homes globally during the year, with almost 35 million of these seeking refuge or... Read more »

DREW HARRIS AND THE MI5 AGENT

June 17, 2021

IN AUGUST 2020, Operation Arbacia, a major MI5 exercise, hit the headlines. It saw 10 people charged with activities linked to the New... Read more »

THE EU AND AFRICA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

June 3, 2021

GIVEN ITS capacity for Orwellian speak, the EU’s unveiling of something called the European Peace Facility (EPF), should make one sit up and... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOOT CAMP

May 20, 2021

SINCE 2019, RTÉ has partnered with Motive Television to produce Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week, and preparations for the third series began last... Read more »

RTÉ’S BOOT CAMP

May 20, 2021

SINCE 2019, RTÉ has partnered with Motive Television to produce Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week, and preparations for the third series began last... Read more »

IT’S A LONG WAY FROM KILKENNY

May 6, 2021

WELL-TRAVELLED Kilkenny emigrant, young Caolan Robertson, has also had some interesting ideological journeys over the past decade as his recently launched media campaign... Read more »

HOW TO RECRUIT INFORMANTS

April 22, 2021

THE DREGS of loyalist paramilitaries took a break in recent weeks from selling drugs on an industrial scale to rage against borders in... Read more »

STEFAN HALLENIUS’S LOSSES

April 22, 2021

PUBLISHERS ARE among those struggling with Covid and Stefan Hallenius finds himself in the front line. He entered the Irish publishing world with... Read more »

WHO IS BEATING THE WAR DRUMS?

April 8, 2021

IT MAY seem a little surprising in the midst of a global pandemic and the costly Brexit process that British prime minister Boris... Read more »

MI5 PROVOCATEURS

March 11, 2021

NORTHERN SECRETARY Brandon Lewis ought to get a grip on his government’s intelligence apparatus and their activities in his patch before they do... Read more »

DUP’S ‘CONCERNED’ BEDFELLOWS

March 11, 2021

THE DUP’S connections with loyalist paramilitaries have once again been downplayed by the media, which continues to treat it as a normal political... Read more »

UNTURNED STONES

February 25, 2021

STEPHEN MARTIN, a top PSNI crime officer centrally involved in the decision to launch a criminal investigation into the journalists who probed the... Read more »

SUING OPERATION KENOVA

February 25, 2021

THE STAKEKNIFE farrago continues to unravel with Operation Kenova now being undermined by legal action. The murder of Belfast pensioner Francisco Notorantonio by... Read more »

DISSIDENTS TRICKED?

February 11, 2021

THE RECENT, highly professional execution in Belfast of Daniel McClean, a former member of the so-called Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH) dissident group, is... Read more »

SPY COPS

February 11, 2021

The so called Spy Cops bill currently being debated in Britain’s parliament gives agents being handled by UK covert forces the right to... Read more »

TORY RED HAND

January 28, 2021

THE ASSASSINATION of yet another collusion campaigner will be commemorated soon – Lurgan solicitor, Rosemary Nelson, March 1999 – but that hasn’t stopped... Read more »

DUP’S ‘PEACE-BUILDING’

January 28, 2021

DUP LINKED human-rights-abusing countries such as Bahrain, Moldova, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Israel have all received long-term military training from British armed... Read more »

KINAHANS GO NORTH

January 14, 2021

THE CONVICTION of two Kinahan gangsters recently in connection with a botched gangland hit in 2017 against rival Hutch gang supremo James ‘Mago’... Read more »

THE POPE CONSPIRACY

January 14, 2021

JUST AS with the original 1996 DUP/Spook driven smear campaign against US peace envoy Martha Pope, the latest revelations – via the release... Read more »

KINAHANS’ BELFAST LINKS

December 16, 2020

The Russian Makarov firearm, either as a handgun or rifle, is a signature weapon of the Kinahan cartel and has been linked to... Read more »

ANOTHER IRA TRIBUNAL?

December 16, 2020

The Irish state’s ‘stab in the back’ collusion with the IRA is an old unionist hobby horse that should have been put up... Read more »

CHARLIE FLANAGAN’S TROUBLES TROUBLE

December 3, 2020

Unionist psyops victim Eugene Reavey was recently vindicated in the UK parliament and former justice minister Charlie Flanagan was quick to join in... Read more »