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Patricia Devlin

Patricia Devlin

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  • Investigations
    • The man who claims his homemade bleach can cure cancer and autism
    • The questionable tactics used by Scientology linked rehab firm on Irish drug addicts
  • Survivors
    • Catholic church doctored books of mother and baby homes to claim cash from Irish State
    • ‘I cried out for someone to come and take me away so many times, but no one came to rescue me’
    • ‘I want to send a clear message to all abusers…we are coming after you. You will all face justice’
    • Child number 1629 – David’s story
    • I just want to look my mum’s killer in the eye and ask them,’why?’
    • ‘I know I am not the only one he has raped’ – woman left for dead after horror attack at 8 years old breaks silence
    • ‘You are holding your baby and you are being told you are a filthy, selfish whore’
    • Abused, raped and forced to give birth at 12 years-old
    • This woman was shot 12 times in front of her children. The man responsible is still walking the streets of Ireland.
    • ‘Brainwashed into believing our mother abandoned us for 18 years’
    • Domestic abuse: This is what it looks like
  • Crime
    • The RUC widow left with a collusion legacy
    • Irish nuns sold ‘dead’ babies to America
    • Face-to-face with the main suspect in the Inga Maria Hauser murder case
    • Bringing the horror of Ulster’s past into today’s classroom
    • The unsolved murder of Jim Goonan
    • Jim Wells fantasist claims: ‘I’m child of evil paedophile priest’
    • Where is the missing suspect sketch in the Charles Self murder case?
    • He made millions from heists, armed robberies and drugs, but today this criminal godfather has just €3.50 in his pocket
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    The unsolved murder of Jim Goonan

    You’ll notice that unsolved murders will become a theme on this blog, and it won’t be from choice.  Sadly there is a shocking number of cases in…… Read more “The unsolved murder of Jim Goonan”

    November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    ‘I was told that if I’d been raped, I’d get over it – but I’d never get over terminating my pregnancy’

    Last year I carried out an investigation into how anti-abortion protesters were confronting women using Belfast’s Marie Stopes Centre. The article received a lot of feedback, with…… Read more “‘I was told that if I’d been raped, I’d get over it – but I’d never get over terminating my pregnancy’”

    October 29, 2016October 29, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    Abused, raped and forced to give birth at 12 years-old

    ABUSED at the age of two, gang raped by eight and giving birth to twins at 12. This is the horrific story of a Dublin woman who…… Read more “Abused, raped and forced to give birth at 12 years-old”

    October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    I just want to look my mum’s killer in the eye and ask them,’why?’

    LAST week Antoinette Smith should have been celebrating her 56th birthday. Instead her family were marking yet another year that the devoted mum had been cruelly stolen…… Read more “I just want to look my mum’s killer in the eye and ask them,’why?’”

    October 25, 2016October 25, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    ‘I cried out for someone to come and take me away so many times, but no one came to rescue me’

    By Patricia Devlin WHEN Margaret McGuckin began a justice campaign for historical abuse victims in the north, she was told: “You can’t take on the church and the state.” Seven years…… Read more “‘I cried out for someone to come and take me away so many times, but no one came to rescue me’”

    October 22, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    ‘You are holding your baby and you are being told you are a filthy, selfish whore’

    WHEN Terri Harrison discovered her period was late in February 1973, she knew she had to leave Catholic Ireland. “The plan was if I discovered I wasn’t…… Read more “‘You are holding your baby and you are being told you are a filthy, selfish whore’”

    October 20, 2016August 26, 2018 by Patricia Devlin

    Child number 1629 – David’s story

    By Patricia Devlin This month I spoke to a number of survivors of Ireland’s horrific mother and baby institutions. One of those was David Kinsella, a Dublin…… Read more “Child number 1629 – David’s story”

    October 20, 2016October 22, 2016 by Patricia Devlin

    Branded a fallen woman, but Mary was just another victim of Catholic Ireland

      WHEN Francis Timmons held his dying mother’s hand, he felt like the luckiest man on earth. For not many children who survived the horrors of the…… Read more “Branded a fallen woman, but Mary was just another victim of Catholic Ireland”

    October 20, 2016August 26, 2018 by Patricia Devlin

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    Patricia Devlin

    Award winning journalist based in Ireland covering crime and investigations.

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