Episodes

  • The LVF murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan and the struggle for justice

    The LVF murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan and the struggle for justice
    Nov 18 2024

    Martin O’Hagan was a former IRA prisoner who eventually rejected violence and became an investigative reporter with the Sunday World. He was murdered by the LVF in Lurgan on 28th of September 2001. No-one has ever been convicted of the killing. The National Union of Journalists wants an independent inquiry into the killing and the subsequent investigation into it.

    Ciarán Dunbar is by joined by Anton McCabe, Seamus Dooley, and by Jim McDowell, Martin O’Hagan’s editor at the Sunday World.



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    30 mins
  • LUCIDTALK: NI split over DUP meetings with LLC, O’Neill suffers from McMonagle fall-out but Sinn Féin’s support solid

    LUCIDTALK: NI split over DUP meetings with LLC, O’Neill suffers from McMonagle fall-out but Sinn Féin’s support solid
    Nov 15 2024

    The Belfast Telegraph’s political editor Suzanne Breen joins Ciarán Dunbar with her analysis of Belfast Telegraph’s LucidTalk polling, including a recent dip in support for Michelle O’Neill among recent Sinn Féin controversies and Unionist support for DUP ministers’ meetings with Loyalist paramilitary representatives.


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    27 mins
  • "PSNI failed to do even the most basic police work" - Allison Morris on police failings in Katie Simpson murder investigation

    "PSNI failed to do even the most basic police work" - Allison Morris on police failings in Katie Simpson murder investigation
    Nov 12 2024
    The Police Ombudsman says the PSNI investigation into the death of Katie Simpson was “flawed and failed her family”. The 21-year-old died in hospital a week after an incident where her sister’s partner, Jonathan Creswell, claimed to have found her mid-suicide attempt. In reality, he had repeatedly attacked her. Police failed to question Katie’s death, despite Creswell’s violent history and physical signs of abuse on her body. He was later charged with her murder but took his life one day into the trial earlier this year. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Allison Morris.

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    27 mins
  • The Newry actress, The Iraqi Businessman and the multi-million-pound Gangster film scam

    The Newry actress, The Iraqi Businessman and the multi-million-pound Gangster film scam
    Nov 11 2024
    In the making of a film ironically titled ‘A Landscape of Lies’, Newry born actress Aoife Madden was joined by a wealthy Iraqi businessman to try their hand at making it on the big screen. But what appeared as a lifelong dream was really all about conning investors and the tax man out of millions. Madden (the niece of Sinn Fein Finance minister Conor Murphy) was part of a team which scammed HMRC £2.8 million to produce a movie which she falsely promised to have a star-studded cast. Kurtis Reid joins Ciarán Dunbar.

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    28 mins
  • EXTRA: Ex-Sinn Féin man McMonagle jailed for child sex offences

    EXTRA: Ex-Sinn Féin man McMonagle jailed for child sex offences
    Nov 8 2024

    Ex-Sinn Féin press officer Michael McMonagle have been sentenced to nine months in custody for child sex offences. In one incident, he believed he was chatting online to a 12-year-old girl, who was actually a police decoy. The 42-year-old previously pleaded guilty to 14 charges. The case was one of a series of controversies which rocked Sinn Féin in recent months.

    Andrew Madden reports.



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    11 mins
  • "30 people involved, yet Nobody has been brought to justice”: Denzil McDaniel on The Enniskillen bombing

    "30 people involved, yet Nobody has been brought to justice”: Denzil McDaniel on The Enniskillen bombing
    Nov 8 2024
    The Enniskillen Bomb in November 1987 sent shockwaves across the world. An IRA bomb at a Remembrance Day service in the town killed 11 civilians, including three married couples. 63 people were injured, and a twelfth victim died after being in a coma for 13 years because of his injuries. No one has ever been convicted of the attack. Ciarán Dunbar is joined by former editor of the Impartial Reporter and author of ‘Enniskillen: The Remembrance Sunday Bombing’ Denzil McDaniel.

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    26 mins
  • Trump triumphant by a landslide – how and why did he win the American people?

    Trump triumphant by a landslide – how and why did he win the American people?
    Nov 6 2024

    Donald Trump has resoundingly won the US Presidency. He is now the oldest person to win the presidency, the only convicted felon to do so, and the only won to have incited an insurrection. But not of that matters now – the American people have spoken. How did the night play out, how surprised are we, and what does it mean for Northern Ireland and the Republic?

    Keith Bailie, Brett Campbell, Margaret Canning and Olivia Peden join Ciarán Dunbar.



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    40 mins
  • Trevor Birney on the Loughinisland Massacre, the PSNI’s ‘Stasi’ tactics, and his arrest

    Trevor Birney on the Loughinisland Massacre, the PSNI’s ‘Stasi’ tactics, and his arrest
    Nov 6 2024
    Loughinisland is a small parish in Co. Down. Its name has become synonymous with the infamous Loughinisland Massacre, when six were killed by the UVF in a pub while watching Ireland play Italy in the 1994 World Cup. Trevor Birney helped make a documentary about the murders – but in 2018, he was arrested by PSNI over material used in the film, alongside his colleague Barry Mccaffrey. Six years later, they’re at the center of a major tribunal against the authorities over keeping surveillance of local Journalists. He joins Ciarán Dunbar.

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    32 mins