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Ice hockey in Belfast is a spectator sport with no deep history on either side of the Protestant-Catholic conflict. It’s a ...
British police have charged Liam O’Hanna, a member of the Belfast rap group Kneecap with a terror offence over the display of ...
On the 3rd of July 1970, a Friday, the British Army seals off the lower Falls area of west Belfast. A ‘curfew’ is announced, although without a legal basis. Troops go in, searching from house ...
Patrick Crawford died after being struck by a bullet as he walked through the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in 1975 (Family handout/PA) An unidentified British Army soldier was ...
Most recently, in May 2021 a report found a British Army operation in southwest Belfast conducted forty years previously had led to the unlawful killing of ten unarmed, innocent civilians.
Photo: Joop van Bilsen In an effort to stave off IRA attacks and to keep peace on the streets of Belfast ... by equal retaliatory force from the British Army and police. Most notably, during ...
A former British soldier is to ... The soldiers all belonged to temporary army unit, known as the Military Reaction Force (MRF), that was operating in Belfast in 1972. As the prosecution decisions ...
The Home Guard scheme is expected to be announced in the Government's Strategic Defence Review (SDR), which is set to be ...
“The court has found that our father was waterboarded by the British Army in Belfast in 1972,” they said. “The court also found that he was maliciously prosecuted by the army. “The court ...
The claim is made in a new book about the double life of the notorious British army agent known by the codename Stakeknife. In 2003, Stakeknife was named as Belfast republican Freddie Scappaticci ...
A west Belfast man who was alleged to have been the British Army’s top mole in the Provisional IRA has died. Freddie Scappaticci, who was aged in his 70s, always denied that he was the agent ...