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Freddie Scappaticci [1] (12 January 1946 [2] – April 2023) was an Irish IRA member named in the Kenova report as a British Intelligence mole with the codename "Stakeknife". [3] Scappaticci was a member of the IRA’s Internal Security Unit. In 2003, it was reported that Scappaticci had been working for British intelligence, their highest ...
Website. www.belfastzoo.co.uk. Belfast Zoological Gardens (also known as Bellevue Zoo) is a zoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is in a relatively secluded location on the northeastern slope of Cavehill, overlooking Belfast's Antrim Road. Opened in 1934, it is the second-oldest zoo in Ireland, after Dublin Zoo, which opened in 1831.
Alexander Robinson. Alexander "Buck Alec" Robinson (c. 1901–1995) was a boxer, Ulster loyalist paramilitary and Ulster Special Constabulary reservist. Robinson gained notoriety in Northern Ireland for streetfighting, [1] [2] robbery [3] and for owning a pet lion. His contemporaries included James "Stormy" Wetherall and Patrick "Silver" McKee.
Marian Price. Marian Price (born 1954), also known by her married name as Marian McGlinchey, [1] is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer . Born into a Republican family in Belfast, Price joined the IRA in 1971, along with her sister Dolours Price. They both participated in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, for which Marian ...
The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland went to Belfast Monday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two years of political crisis. British Prime ...
McDonnell was one of 22 Irish republicans (in the 20th century) who died on hunger-strike. [6] Upon his death, McDonnell was martyred alongside the other hunger strikers and remains a well-known figure in the movement today, even with his death. McDonnell is commemorated on the Irish Martyrs Memorial at Waverley Cemetery in Sydney, Australia.
A seven year-old girl from Northern Ireland was on cloud nine after a special greeting from Bruce Springsteen at his concert in Belfast. Michelle Lavery has been to more than 50 gigs of the New ...
The Belfast Telegraph is a daily newspaper published in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Independent News & Media, which also publishes the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and various other newspapers and magazines in Ireland. Its editor is Eoin Brannigan. [1] Reflecting its unionist tradition, the paper has historically been "favoured ...