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Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate
- Social Affairs
- January 12, 2021
Nine thousand children died in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes between 1922 and 1998, including three-quarters of all the children born, or admitted t(...)

Mass testing for asymptomatic Covid to be rolled out across England
- UK
- January 10, 2021, 15:10
The British government is to roll out mass community testing across England, to detect people who have Covid-19 but show no symptoms. The programme, (...)

Real-life Peaky Blinders: How the IRA sourced guns from the ‘Birmingham mob’
- Heritage
- January 8, 2021, 06:00
Britain at the end of the first World War was a country in a state of foment, and its government led by David Lloyd George lived in terror of a commun(...)

Tony Blair admitted British were partially responsible for Troubles – documentary
- Irish News
- January 6, 2021, 18:34
Tony Blair told Martin McGuinness that the British were partially responsible for the conditions that led to the Troubles, a new documentary states. (...)

Phil Lynott: ‘I didn’t know how shy he was, how awkward, and scared of rejection’
- Music
- December 26, 2020, 05:00
With input from the late Dublin rock star’s close friends and family, Emer Reynolds’s new film, Songs for While I’m Away, puts forward a different (...)

The Irish-Romanian clique behind migrant lorry deaths in Essex
- UK
- December 21, 2020, 18:18
The people-smuggling ring behind the migrant deaths in Essex was an Irish-Romanian enterprise. Gheorghe Nica Romanian Nica was said to be the “key o(...)

Coronavirus: 48-hour ban on all flights from Britain due to fears over new virus strain
- Health
- December 20, 2020
A 48-hour ban on all flights arriving into the Republic from Britain comes into force at midnight tonight as part of an emergency response to growing (...)

Concern over lack of Brexit readiness at Wales ports – UK committee
- Business
- December 11, 2020, 06:44
A UK parliamentary committee has expressed “deep concern” at the failure to build border customs facilities for Welsh port traffic before Brexit comes(...)

Roland Gift: ‘Everyone on our street was black or brown or Irish. To me that was normal’
- Music
- December 9, 2020, 06:00
There are no film posters up in Roland Gift’s house in London, and the platinum discs are all packed away. It’s a home that gives few clues to the rem(...)

Tom Barry said Provos only had ‘themselves to blame’ for losing support
- Irish News
- December 6, 2020, 14:45
Tom Barry, the architect of the Kilmichael ambush during the War of Independence, “point blank” refused to support republican hunger strikers in Portl(...)