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Articles by Ciarán MacAirt
Colin Wallace Archives - Village Magazine
The stench of death associated with the Kincora child sex abuse scandal is heady. It includes the murder of a Westminster MP by an MI5 agent inside the IRA. The murderous agent was Alfredo ‘Freddie’ Scappaticci. The victim was Robert Bradford, a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party. He […] Read more
Edward Heath Archives - Village Magazine
Introduction. In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General, Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues decided to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs that “a direct armed clash between the army and the [Loyalist Ulster Defence Association], when the former was already facing the IRA, […]
British Soldiers, British Agents and the UDA’s Romper Rooms
As discussed above, we know that British Military Intelligence had begun building comprehensive files on all Loyalist personalities at every level when Direct Rule was established in March 1972.
Greed, Destruction, Violence, and Betrayal in Quinn Country
Garda must try harder on woman’s complaints about Judge James O’Connor
Intelligence and Covert Action
RECAP OF PART ONE In Part One of this story, Alan Kerr described how he was sexually abused by three men at Williamson House, a Belfast Corporation Welfare Department care home in Belfast, in the 1970s. He was only six years of age when he was first raped. One of his abusers was Eric Witchell, […]
North Death Squad Killer Dies. By Ciarán MacAirt
An Elegant cacophony: Fontaines DC at the Iveagh Gardens.
Facism not Fascism: the Mask. By David Langwallner.
Frank Kitson, Collusion and the McGurk’s Bar Cover-Up. By Ciarán MacAirt.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, Glenanne and McGurk's
Unquiet Graves tells the story of the Glenanne Gang and investigates the role of the British state and its Armed Forces in the killing of 120 Irish Catholic civilians during the conflict in Ireland – on both sides of the British border. Commissioner Drew Harris makes an appearance. It is a devastatingly powerful piece of filmmaking by award-winning director, Seán Murray, featuring astounding efforts over the past few decades by the families, Pat Finucane Centre and Justice for the Forgotten.
Paper-Trailers with Lyra McKee
It is particularly poignant today as Paper-Trailers opens with an article by the talented writer, Lyra McKee, who was shot dead by extremists on 18th April 2019. Lyra was a great supporter of Paper Trail and the charity's work from its inception. She remains a guiding light. We are re-releasing Paper-Trailers, free for all to read, on the first anniversary of her killing and re-dedicating it to her as a small token of our esteem.
The History Thieves of McGurk's Bar - Paper Trail
Most recently in the Guardian, he informed us that the British Government admits “losing” thousands of papers from the National Archives, London. Files relating to the security situation in the north of Ireland in the early 1970s are among files that the National Archives have listed as “misplaced while on loan to government department”.
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