Freya McClements

Freya McClements

Northern Editor

Freya McClements is Northern Editor of The Irish Times.

Martin McAleese provided buses for loyalists as part of contacts

Paramilitaries travelled to social event in mini-buses after checking for ‘bugs and bombs’

Censoring Sinn Féin Christmas card ‘a step too far’, NI officials told after staff complaints

Some social security workers ‘offended’ by card from local Sinn Féin office thanking them for their work

Irish-language courts in North could be ‘open to abuse’, PSNI feared

Giving ‘preferred language’ option would slow down proceedings and potentially lead to challenges, senior officer said

Tackle sectarianism by making subject sexy, minister told

‘Wide and complex’ problem could be approached by tying in sports and entertainment, groups suggested

Slow progress a feature of North’s early powersharing that endures to this day

Executive struggled under weight of paperwork and protracted decision-making process

NI department was advised from London on how to present its response to Chernobyl radiation in food chain

Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland told to ‘emphasise that the food chain was safeguarded in 1986’

UK court rules against release of Troubles-era information in far-reaching judgment

Amnesty International describes UK government’s supreme court appeal victory as a ‘grim day for truth’

IRA spy Stakeknife ‘well rewarded financially and taken on holiday’ by handlers, report reveals

Kenova investigation lays bare how double agent and murderer was repeatedly protected at the expense of his victims

Protecting Stakeknife seemed to ‘outweigh’ protecting life of a victim, Kenova report finds

Freddie Scappaticci not named in report due to UK government policy of ‘neither confirm nor deny’

‘No evidence’ of British collusion with loyalists over Dublin and Monaghan bombings

Review under Operation Kenova finds it ‘cannot be categorically excluded’ that security forces worked with UVF in plotting 1974 attacks that killed 34 people

Final report into activities of British army’s top IRA agent during Troubles to be released

Agent, known as Stakeknife, widely accepted to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci who died in 2023

Religious education syllabus in North to be reformed after supreme court ruling

DUP Minister for Education Paul Givan confirms rework after exclusively Christian teaching found unlawful

Charges withdrawn against two teenagers accused of attempting to rape girl in Co Antrim

Alleged incident led to rioting in Ballymena which spread to other parts of Northern Ireland during the summer

PSNI officer stabbed with hunting knife while attempting to arrest man in Derry

Two others and custody detention officer assaulted as two arrested on suspicion of several offences, including attempted murder

‘Significant uncertainty’: Vets in North worried at post-Brexit rule changes on medicines

Exemption allowing medicinal products to be supplied from Britain expires within weeks

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