Episodes
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âĂglaigh na hĂireannâ means âyoung warriors of Irelandâ. There are now fears that the struggle to claim the title and its history could spill over into violence in Belfast. The dissident republican group known as âONHâ has split in to rival factions â with each side making bitter accusations against the other.
Belfast Telegraph security correspondent, Allison Morris, reports.
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Top former BBC Journalist Huw Edwards has avoided prison despite pleading guilty to making indecent images of children. The man who was once the BBCâs most senior news presenter was given a suspended six-month prison sentence. He will also be placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years.
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by legal commentator Joshua Rozenberg to explain the sentence, which has divided the public.
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The last Troubles era prisoner has been released, but his victimâs family question if he is fit to return to society. Clifford McKeown was serving a minimum sentence of 24 years in Magilligan Prison for murdering taxi driver Michael McGoldrick in 1996. Mckeown shot the father-of-one as a twisted birthday gift to then Mid-Ulster UVF leader Billy Wright - âKing Ratâ. CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Sunday Worldâs Steven Moore.
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The UDA is promising to hit back after its North Antrim boss was attacked by rival loyalists. Marcus Boreland, who denies any links to criminality, was left with a snapped ankle after band supporters broke loose from a parade and attacked him with their flutes, following the brigadeâs feud with a faction from a nearby village. The LCC has rejected police demands for a meeting after loyalist Dee Stitt was arrested over online comments on recent race-related violence â raising new questions over its relevance amongst loyalist circles. CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by The Sunday Lifeâs Ciaran Barnes.
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Arlene Arkinson was 15 years old the last time she was seen alive. She disappeared in August 1994 after leaving Castlederg in County Tyrone to attend a disco across the border. She was last seen with convicted sex offender Robert Howard, who was released without charge for her murder. Today it was announced that the GardaĂ have started a new search for her body in Donegal. Olivia Peden is joined by Belfast Telegraphâs Andrew Madden
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51 men have gone on trial in France, all accused of sexually assaulting the same woman over a 10-year period. 72-year-old GisĂšle Pelicot has been subjected to a decade of abuse by men who are aged between 26 and 74 years old. Her husband has plead guilty to repeatedly drugging her and inviting men into their home to sexually abuse her. GisĂšleâs decision to waive her anonymity in the case has sent shockwaves across the globe. CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Paris based journalist Catherine Field.
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and wife Eleanor have pleaded not guilty to all charges of historical sex offences against them. The court in Newy also heard Mrs Donaldson has lodged an application to have two of her five charges withdrawn.
Liam Tunney reports.
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Enoch Burke is back in Mountjoy prison after returning to the Christian Wilsonâs Hospital School in Westmeath, despite being barred from the premises. His family and multiple international outlets say he is doing time because heâs a Christian standing up to the so-called woke âtrans agendaâ. Why exactly is Enoch Burke behind bars, and how much of his life could he end up spending there? CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Journalist Shane Phelan, who has been following the story.
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Former nurse Lucy Letby is serving a whole life sentence for the murder of 7 babies and the attempted murder of 7 others. But now there are calls, including one from former Tory Brexit minister David Davis, for her case to be re-examined. Are there valid reasons to question the evidence against her and could the case be reopened?
Kevin Doyle is joined by legal journalist and commentator Joshua Rozenberg.
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Kingspan has been heavily criticised in the final report into the Grenfell disaster. 72 people died in the 2017 blaze. The report found Kingspan and two other firms engaged in a deliberate strategy to mislead the market about their products. The Irish company produced only 5% of the towerâs combustible foam but has been accused of âknowinglyâ misleading authorities about the results of tests done on the product. Kingspan sponsors Ulster Rugby and Cavan GAA.
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Belfast Telegraph reporter Liam Tunney.
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âCaptain Nairacâ was an exceptional but eccentric British Army officer abducted and murdered by the IRA in May 1977. He was snatched from a pub car park in South Armagh â a place he had gone alone â posing as a Belfast Republican. A search is continuing for his body.
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Alistair Kerr, author of âBetrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GCâ
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Oasis fans across the island were left angry, disappointed and waiting in digital queues of nearly three-quarters of a million people, as they tried to buy tickets for the Gallagher brothersâ reunion tour dates, in Croke Park next August.
Many would-be concert-goers were offered standard âin demandâ tickets for sums reaching close to ÂŁ500, leaving many accusing Ticketmaster of âprice gougingâ and of touting their own concert tickets.
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A Tyrone man has lost over ÂŁ12,000 in a cryptocurrency scam after an account claiming to be his friend roped him into what was a supposedly âlow riskâ investment. Last year over 5,000 investment scams like this were reported to the PSNI â amounting to over ÂŁ20 million. Olivia Peden is joined by Kurtis Reid, who spoke to a victim of crypto fraud.
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After 25 years of what it termed âArmed Struggleâ and the âLong Warâ , the Provisional IRA called a âcomplete cessation of military operationsâ on 31st August 1994 â 30 years ago. By that stage, the organisation was responsible for the deaths of 1,700 people. CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by Journalists Brian Rowan and Allison Morris, Former Belfast Telegraph Editor Ed Curran and historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh.
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Foyle MP Colum Eastwood is to step down as SDLP leader. He has backed South Belfast MP Claire Hanna to take over the leadership of the party. Colum Eastwood, who has been leader for 9 years, said the "moment has come to step aside".
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by the Belfast Telegraphâs Foyle reporter, Garrett Hargan.
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The Belfast Telegraphâs latest LucidTalk polling took Northern Irelandâs pulse on the levels of support for the parties, immigration and funding for the Casement Park rebuild. And after the resignation of Doug Beattie â is the UUP simply unleadable?
Commentators David McCann and Sarah Creighton join CiarĂĄn Dunbar.
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West Belfast greengrocer Harry Holland was murdered in September 2007. In an attempt to steal Harry Hollandâs van, then 16-year-old Stephen McKee stabbed him in the head with a screwdriver, leaving the pensioner to die later in hospital. McKee was given 12 years behind bars for the murder but was eligible for pre-release back in 2016. To the relief of Harry Hollandâs family, the now 33-year-old has been sent back to prison following his suspected involvement of âvery seriousâ reoffending.
Allison Morris joins CiarĂĄn Dunbar.
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Secret papers revealed by the Belfast Telegraph suggest the civil service and government knew Iain Hay Gordon was innocent of the murder of Patricia Curran but continued to cover up the truth. Officials feared that reopening the case could undermine confidence in the judiciary, just months after the UK government deployed troops to deal with the start of the troubles. The release of this latest evidence comes almost two years after The BelTelâs series on the murder of the judgeâs daughter.
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by former Belfast Telegraph journalist Stephen Gordon.
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Patricia Curranâs mutilated body was discovered just 40 yards from her home at 2 oâclock in the morning on the 13th of November 1952.
She was a judgeâs daughter â savagely stabbed to death - the pressure was on to find her killer.
An innocent - but compromised man - Ian Hay Gordon, was eventually blackmailed into signing a confession and sent to a Psychiatric hospital â only to be quietly released and packed off to home to Scotland.
In this episode of the BelTel, Journalist Stephen Gordon, tells us about meeting Patriciaâs brother Desmond â who spent his life as a Catholic Priest in South Africa â a life some think was an act of redemption.
And we ask the biggest question of all â if Ian Hay Gordon didnât kill Patricia â then who did?
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The early hours of the morning on the 12th of November 1952, a judgeâs daughter, Patricia Curran, is found dead in the garden of her family home. She had been stabbed 37 times.
The BelTel looks at the shocking killing and how Ian Hay Gordon Gordon, a young Scot doing his national service in the RAF, was intimidated into signing a false confession, frightened that his mother would find out about his sex life.
CiarĂĄn Dunbar is joined by journalist Stephen Gordon, whoâs been fascinated by this horrific murder for a long time.
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