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’”
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Church removes safeguarding support for man who reported clerical abuse
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”
“I think the whole system fails young girls and women…it failed my daughter”
THE family of a young mum who took her own life just five weeks after giving birth have pleaded with those struggling with post-natal depression to seek help. Shaciara McDowell, 18, passed away at her Co Antrim home on Monday just a month after welcoming baby son Cáhir Gerard into the world. Her family sayContinue reading ““I think the whole system fails young girls and women…it failed my daughter””
‘I hadn’t cried since my grandmother died in 1963, but I cried the night Bobby Sands died’
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’”
“How can you take a rapist off the street and let him out again to potentially attack someone else?”
A BELFAST woman raped while on holiday in Europe has told how she felt “abandoned” after reporting the horror attack. Alicia Perry (44) said she was left stranded in Macedonia for 10 days, unable to access medical help and forced to face hours of gruelling police questioning after reporting the serious sexual assault.The well-known model and equalContinue reading ““How can you take a rapist off the street and let him out again to potentially attack someone else?””
‘I want to clear my father’s name. In my eyes he was murdered in the street in cold blood…it’s time for the truth’
IT’S been just over 47 years since west Belfast man Stan Carberry last saw his father. “I can remember it well,” the 55 year-old recalled. “I was eight years-old at the time and myself and my brother and sisters were all getting ready for school, the six of us running around, and he was trying to get usContinue reading “‘I want to clear my father’s name. In my eyes he was murdered in the street in cold blood…it’s time for the truth’”
‘I knew Stephen was struggling but he’d so much to live for. We will be a voice for those suffering’
THE best friend of late radio star Stephen Clements has vowed to use his memory to help those struggling with mental health issues. Larry Goodey, the BBC presenter’s close pal of 30 years, said he hoped Stephen’s legacy would be giving a voice to those who “feel they have nowhere to go”. In a powerfulContinue reading “‘I knew Stephen was struggling but he’d so much to live for. We will be a voice for those suffering’”
Progress? Yes. But change?
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?”
Masked UVF thugs stormed Ian Ogle’s place of work a year before murder
MURDERED loyalist Ian Ogle predicted his own death after masked UVF thugs stormed his place of work a year before he was butchered in the street. The east Belfast thugs followed the dad-of-two (45) to his window fitting job, smashed up a car he was travelling in before ordering colleagues to force the father outContinue reading “Masked UVF thugs stormed Ian Ogle’s place of work a year before murder”
‘The British government has dragged us through the mud for 45 years – now there’s proof one of their officers was involved in the massacre’ – Des Lee
A survivor of the Miami Showband massacre has called the existence of army documents naming an undercover solider at the scene as “the final nail in the coffin”. Des Lee, who miraculously survived the 1975 atrocity, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) papers calling out Captain Robert Nairac and his alleged role in the UVFContinue reading “‘The British government has dragged us through the mud for 45 years – now there’s proof one of their officers was involved in the massacre’ – Des Lee”
Patricia Devlin 