John Ware
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Guns, grenades and lynchings: Revisiting the funeral murders
- Irish News
- March 19, 2018, 01:00
Thirty years ago today in Belfast a silver car reversed at speed into the republican funeral cortege of an IRA volunteer, Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, also (...)

Loughinisland families welcome judge’s stepping down from case
- Irish News
- January 26, 2018, 20:40
The families of those killed in the Loughinisland massacre and nationalist politicians have welcomed a judge’s decision to excuse himself from a case (...)

Next Friday morning, a group, mostly men, mostly late middle-aged, hope and expect to hear a ruling from Mr Justice Bernard McCloskey in the Royal Cou(...)

How, and why, did Scappaticci survive the IRA’s wrath?
- Irish News
- April 15, 2017
Freddie Scappaticci sent a young boy “on a message”, as they say in Belfast, up to the home of 44-year-old Anthony McKiernan in January 1988, asking M(...)

Exposed: The murky world of spying during the Troubles
- Irish News
- April 11, 2017
Martin McGuinness always insisted he had “no role whatsoever” in the IRA’s “execution” of British army agent Frank Hegarty from Derry in May 1986. Bri(...)

British to investigate claims on 1972 shoot-to-kill policy
- Irish News
- November 22, 2013, 01:00
The British ministry of defence is to investigate claims that a British army plainclothes undercover unit under the command of an army brigadier opera(...)

Army 'sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy' in Belfast
- Irish News
- November 21, 2013, 01:00
The British army ran an undercover unit that operated a sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy in Belfast during the Troubles, it has been claimed.Former mem(...)