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In the very early 1970s, Brigadier (later General Sir) Frank Kitson and his colleagues were of a mind to confront the IRA, and only the IRA. Kitson’s superior, Lord Michael Carver, revealed in his memoirs that “a direct armed clash between the army and the UDA, when the former was already facing the IRA, was […]
On the day of the local elections Anton McCabe looks at the prospects for revival of the Assembly.
MacSharry is very adamant that he is “his own man” and, in a strange way, given his strong footprint pedigree in Fianna Fail, he may in fact be better off being outside of the party. He has surfaced a very real issue in policy terms for the party he once belonged to — the precise […]
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This article appears in Village Magazine, May-June 2023. It was written by Michael Smith and not Rory O’Sullivan. Apologies for the editorial error.