A former senior civil servant and two leading barristers will make up the paramilitary assessment panel announced last week by Secretary of State Theresa Villiers, it’s been revealed. They are Rosalie Flanagan, a former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure; Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, a Liberal Democrat peer in the […]
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Three members of Villiers’ paramilitary panel named
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New information leads cold case cops to reopen investigations into murder of two Catholics
New information has led police to reopen their investigations into the murder of two Catholic men in Belfast. John Devine was shot dead in his Fallswater Street home in July 1989. The 37-year-old father-of-three was with his 13-year-old son when the killers struck. The murder was claimed by the Protestant Action Force, a cover name […]
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Bobby Storey was told of death threat by police as he left custody
Bobby Storey was warned by police of a death threat against him as he left Antrim Serious Crime Suite last week, the northern Chair of Sinn Féin has told Daily Belfast. The West Belfast man was questioned for over 30 hours by detectives in connection with the murder of former IRA man Kevin McGuigan. However, […]
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Perils and perks of reporting in the world of social media outlined by former RTE reporter in Manhattan speech
The perils of reporting via social media were partly evident even as Mark Little, one of the great success stories in the new business of social journalism, addressed the Irish Business Organisation in Manhattan. As Little concluded showing a video on Storyful, the company he launched in 2010 and sold to Newscorp for £13m ($20m) […]
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New Belfast Rapid Transit system put back a year because of cuts
WEST Belfast motorists can expect a further year of traffic gridlock as the finish date for the ambitious Belfast Rapid Transit (BRT) system has been delayed until 2018, we can reveal. The BRT was expected to be fully operational by autumn 2017. But continuing cutbacks at the Department for Regional Development – currently without a […]
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Bobby Storey warned by police of death threat as he was released from custody
Bobby Storey was warned of a death threat against him as he left Antrim Serious Crime Suite last Thurday evening, the northern Chair of Sinn Féin has revealed. The West Belfast man was questioned for over 30 hours by detectives in connection with the murder of former IRA man Kevin McGuigan. However, Mr Storey doesn’t […]
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