Boiling water contaminated with THMs does not make it safe; it compounds the danger. Ireland is now in clear breach of EU law and permitting a growing risk to public health. By Tony Lowes Uisce ...

There seems to be a lack of overall perspective on the beleaguered inner city of Dublin from the conservation planners in Dublin City Council. The Council’s decades-long neglect of conservation ...

Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, a beacon of resilience and a tireless advocate for justice reform, passed away at the age of seventy-six in a tragic house fire in Glenmacmurrin, County Galway, Ireland, today ...

T’S BEEN a long four months since our last publication. Some of that is because it’s not clear what ...

Kitson’s first overseas assignment was to Germany in 1946 with the rank of second lieutenant. He remained there for seven years. He found plenty of sport to occupy his spare time such as racing horses ...

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 ...

The Information Research Department (IRD) of Britain’s Foreign Office sought to smear the victims of Bloody Sunday and the McGurks bar bomb atrocity. They even went so far as to attack a group of ...

A synopsis of a fuller story covered in Village‘s print magazine. Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar has come to be known as a leaker. The hashtag #leotheleak has trended on Twitter on several occasions ...

Three investigations are underway at the hospital into allegations of racism. By Conor O’Carroll. At least three independent investigations into serious allegations of racism are underway at Cork ...

1. Kitson’s Private Army. Lance Corporal David Cleary was a member of the elite Support Company of the 1 st Parachute Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Derek Wilford. Wilford reported upwards to ...

New evidence has emerged about the UVF’s bombing of McGurk’s Bar in Belfast in December 1971. The explosion caused the entire structure of the premises to collapse, killing fifteen Catholic civilians ...