John Ware

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The car containing two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, as it drove into a funeral cortege in west Belfast in 1988.
Guns, grenades and lynchings: Revisiting the funeral murders

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 (...)

Emma Rogan, daughter of murdered man Adrian Rogan, speaks on behalf of Loughinisland massacre relatives at Belfast High Court this month. File photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Loughinisland families welcome judge’s stepping down from case

The families of those killed in the Loughinisland massacre and nationalist politicians have welcomed a judge’s decision to excuse himself from a case (...)

The six men killed in O’Toole’s Bar in Loughinisland, Co Down, in 1994: (Top) Adrian Rogan (34), Barney Green (87), Don McCreanor (59); (bottom) Eamonn Byrne (39), Patsy O’Hare (34) and Malcolm Jenkinson (53).
Inquiries, ‘collusion’ and seeking truth in Loughinisland killings

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?

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(...)

Freddie “Stakeknife” Scappaticci at the 1987 funeral of IRA man Larry Marley. Photograph: Pacemaker
Exposed: The murky world of spying during the Troubles

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(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams: said the programme shone a light on one aspect of “Britain’s dirty war” in Ireland. Photograph: Paddy Whelan
British to investigate claims on 1972 shoot-to-kill policy

The British ministry of defence is to investigate claims that a British army plainclothes undercover unit under the command of an army brigadier opera(...)

Former members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF) said that they killed an unspecified number of IRA members and shot them regardless of whether or not they were armed.
Army 'sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy' in Belfast

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(...)