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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 ...
Death and tributes. Buck Alec continued to live in north Belfast until his death in 1995. Gusty Spence and Ian Paisley attended his funeral, the latter carrying the coffin and describing Robinson as "a rare character, a typical Ulsterman, an interesting facet of Ulster's history". A report in the Irish News focused on his paramilitary past ...
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 ...
May 10, 2024 at 10:41 AM. 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 ...
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 ...
Death. On 15 May 1971, a foot patrol of the British Army was ambushed in Academy Street in the centre of Belfast by the Third Battalion Belfast Brigade. Billy Reid, aged 32, was engaged with the foot patrol when a comrade was wounded. Billy Reid told his two comrades to run and he would hold off the patrol. His gun jammed and he tried to escape.
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.
An Phoblacht (Irish pronunciation: [ənˠ ˈfˠɔbˠlˠəxt̪ˠ]; English: "The Republic") is a formerly weekly, and later monthly [1] newspaper published by Sinn Féin in Ireland. From early 2018 onwards, An Phoblacht has moved to a quarterly [2] magazine format while remaining an online news platform.