Picture by @AntrimLens Several years ago Sinn Féin set out our view that the most effective truth recovery mechanism was an International Independent Truth Commission set…
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I know that me being here this evening is difficult for some people; while others simply just don’t want me here at all. I accept that.…
The conversation will be on stage at Feile an Phobail – the west Belfast Festival. And the big talk – scheduled for August 6th – comes…
Last week, 99 new recruits to An Garda Siochána graduated from Templemore training college in Tipperary. At the very same time, court proceedings heard allegations by…
Only a few days ago, the peace process appeared to be coming apart at the seams over the controversial arrest of Gerry Adams. Accusations…
Despite the thousands and thousands of words written and spoken about the arrest of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams no one asked the critical…
If the arrest of Gerry Adams comes as a surprise to some, it will not come as a surprise to him. News of his…
A little over a month ago a call to my mobile phone was the beginning of a sequence of events that took me to…
ACC Will Kerr recently told the Policing Board that the UVF had been orchestrating racist attacks in South and East Belfast. ‘It has a…
Every word that former PSNI chief constable Sir Hugh Orde speaks next Wednesday will be analysed and scrutinised. It will be his turn to give…
It is a pattern with which I am familiar. A telephone call and a meeting place arranged – this the prelude to another statement being…
As charades go, the current attempts by our political leaders to continue with the Haass process, is up there with the best of them!…
So the Northern Ireland Audit Office’s (NIAO) ‘Review of Continuous Improvement Arrangements in Policing’ has come and gone. To many outside policing and academic circles,…
And so a lull has finally arrived. Time to reflect on what has been one of the busiest, and according to the Police Federation,…
Last night we had a briefing from senior retired police officers about the threat to national security from evidence that is being given in…