Author Archives: Patricia Devlin

A DRUG baron who escaped a gangland assassination bid outside his Shankill home has revealed how he was making West Belfast UDA £500k a month selling pure cocaine – and now they want to kill him. David ‘Dee’ Jenkins –  the man known as ‘Mr P’ – today lifts the lid on the ‘C’ Coy (Company) drugContinue reading “‘I was the UDA’s Coke King’”

A MAN who reported historical sex abuse allegations has said he feels “abandoned” by the Catholic church after it withdrew safeguarding support to him. Derryman Denis Cairns (42) slammed a decision by Nottingham Diocese to cut off his access to a safeguarding officer in the final stages of a canonical investigation into his claims surroundingContinue reading “Church removes safeguarding support for man who reported clerical abuse”

A FORMER IRA man who spent years in the next cell to hunger striker Bobby Sands has opened up for the first time about life in the H-Blocks during Northern Ireland’s most troubled times. Jake Mac Siacais (62) revealed how years of being surrounded by death and tragedy on the Maze prison wings eventually leftContinue reading “‘I hadn’t cried since my grandmother died in 1963, but I cried the night Bobby Sands died’”

Article first published in the Mid Ulster Mail on August 17, 2012 LITTLE has changed in the 40 years since Bernadette Devlin McAliskey took her seat in Westminster. There’s been progress, she says, the token gestures, the handshake.But change? In 1969 the 21 year-old was thrust onto the main political stage when she took upContinue reading “Progress? Yes. But change?”