Thirty years on, Jonathan Ganesh still dreams about the Algerian man, Zaoui Berezag, who had gone to South Quay Plaza in London’s Docklands on February 9th, 1996 to clean offices in the Midlands Bank. After finishing his work, Berezag was sitting in his car outside a newsagent’s shop. Also next to the shop was a … Read more
Bringing an end to conflicts involves speaking to participants on the basis of parity of esteem, but no party should be allowed “shoot their way to the table”, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern told TDs and senators on Tuesday. Ahern and former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams spoke to the Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs about … Read more
The dogs in the street, and not just those in West Belfast, know that senior IRA figure Freddie Scappaticci was agent Stakeknife. On Wednesday in the Dáil, Taoiseach Micheál Martin formally identified him. “The identity of Stakeknife is clear to everybody here and I have previously stated that the agent should be officially named by … Read more
Loyalist paramilitaries were often behaving as “community workers by day and terrorists by night”, former Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable George Hamilton has told a Westminster committee. Mr Hamilton, who led the PSNI from 2014 to 2019, said loyalist communities must be empowered to resist the influence of paramilitaries in their neighbourhoods … Read more
Jane Donaldson, daughter of the murdered British agent Denis Donaldson, was prevented from giving evidence during Gerry Adams’s defamation legal action against the BBC. Without the jury present, Ms Donaldson told Mr Justice Alexander Owens her family has an “open mind” regarding who is responsible for her father’s killing but does not believe the Real … Read more
Gerry Adams has rejected a suggestion that he was a senior IRA member released from internment as a precondition to talks aimed at securing a truce between it and the British army in 1972. The former Sinn Féin leader was giving evidence on the second week of his High Court action against the BBC, in … Read more
Members of a specialist British military unit who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force which was not justified, a coroner has ruled. Northern Ireland’s presiding coroner, Mr Justice Michael Humphreys, found that the SAS soldiers did not have an honest belief in the necessity of … Read more