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by James Tweedie
BELFAST loyalist paramilitary supergrass Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty yesterday to some 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.
Relatives of his victims looked on as the former Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) commander, who headed its notorious Mount Vernon unit in north Belfast, repeatedly answered guilty to the litany of charges put to him at the city’s crown court.
JIM JUMP introduces two new publications that examine both sides of the Irish participation in the Spanish civil war
From Barry McGuigan and Carl Frampton to Tyrone McKenna and Lewis Crocker, the city’s fighters carry a complex history into the ring, writes JOHN WIGHT
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.