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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 out... Continue Reading →
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 UVF... Continue Reading →
THE daughter of a SDLP activist murdered by a loyalist gang 40 years ago has told of the heartbreaking decision to exhume her father's remains. Denise Mullen said she was left with “no choice” but to move dad Denis' body from a plot in Co Tyrone after years of pain stopped both her and her... Continue Reading →
Published in the Sunday World (March 25, 2018) IT'S been over 40 years since Rosemary Campbell was left a heartbroken widow. But for the 84 year-old nothing has changed since the day her Catholic RUC husband was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. That's because the grandmother has been left with a collusion legacy where walls of... Continue Reading →
POINTING at an image of his bandmates on an assembly hall screen, Stephen Travers asks a roomful of school pupils, 'Can any of you identify the Protestants or the Catholics?' It was a question no teacher would dare ask, but for the Miami Showband survivor it was part of an important lesson not being taught in today's classroom - the horror of Ulster's troubled past. Some... Continue Reading →
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