Scandals we need to remember
12 September 2026
Renowned Irish journalist Frank Connolly exposed some of the biggest scandals that rocked the political establishment and led to tribunals of inquiry and the resignation of at least one Taoiseach. Here Mícheál Mac Donncha interviews him about corruption then and now. Free article
The sun shone on Sinn Féin's Ard Fheis
27 April 2016
Stephen Todd reflects on the 1916 centenary gathering in “The City that Fought the Empire” Free article
SDLP manifesto boasts shredded on Stephen Nolan BBC Radio Ulster show
27 April 2016
'Car crash interview' exposes lies of SDLP leaders who claimed manifesto promises fully costed Free article
Derry earmarked in secret 1972 ‘counter-terrorism’ report to test lethal plastic bullet
27 April 2016
New weapon ‘intended for use against the hooligans in Londonderry’ Free article
Gang murders raised in Dáil by Mary Lou McDonald TD
27 April 2016
Dublin deputy urges parliament to discuss spiral of killings by crime cartels Free article
Dublin City Hall Members' Room named after 1916 martyr
27 April 2016
Ard Mhéara Críona Ní Dhálaigh formally renames the Members' Room in Dublin City Hall as the Richard O'Carroll Room/Seomra Risteard Ó Cearbhaill Free article
Joe Clarke and the Battle of Mount Street Bridge
27 April 2016
JOE CLARKE, uncompromising Fenian, veteran of the famous Battle of Mount Street Bridge, and ‘a life-long republican, was born at Rush, County Dublin, in December 1881. Free article
Irish Water impasse can be broken if Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael let Dáil motion go ahead
26 April 2016
The motion has been signed by 39 TDs from Sinn Féin, the smaller Left parties and Independents Free article
Amnesty slates British Home Secretary's threat to Good Friday Agreement in Brexit debate
26 April 2016
Tory leadership contender panders to Right with 'foolish' attack on European Convention on Human Rights Free article
On this day 1916 – The Portobello Barracks murders
26 April 2016
The murder and subsequent cover-up of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and two other men by the British military in Dublin on Easter Wednesday 1916 in Dublin Free article
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