This is one for the fans of loyalist paramilitaries out there. On Saturday, the Mount Vernon UVF sent an 8-man gang into Rathcoole to torture Robert McCord for information he didn't have - ie the location of his estranged cousin, Raymond. Paramilitari… more »

Yes folks, another prominent republican has been involved in an altercation with the police - and of course you know what that means. Yes, another whinge about police "heavy handedness". Now that they've accepted claims of 'brutality' were taking the pis… more »

Another twist in the shacking up of the UUP and PUP in Stormont has seen 25 year old Ulster Unionist party officer and Down councillor Peter Bowles is defecting to the Conservatives in protest over the party's new links to the UVF. As well as becoming th… more »

I'm not sure which of these amused me more - the verdict being returned that the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition are not the most oppressed people ever, or the fact that Sinn Fein's very own "No!" men are likely to appeal to Britain's highest court - t… more »

I didn't - and apparently I wasn't that far away from one of them. It can't be just a coincidence that the wastes of space who planned the bomb alerts carried out their hoaxes on a day when they knew Belfast's roads would be hectic anyway, with thousands… more »

The PSNI have confirmed that they do not intend to pursue and arrest Dessie O'Hare, AKA the Border Fox, claiming any investigation would fall under the jurisdiction of the Historical Enquiries Team, which was formed to investigate unsolved murders that t… more »

The failures of Norhtern Ireland's public transport service have been highlighted by a recent survey by the Engergy Saving Trust which found over a third of drivers would like to use their cars less but believe there is no alternative. It also found 56%… more »

David Ervine seems (not surprisingly) to support Reg Empey's claims that it's better to involve loyalists in the political process than to have them outside the tent pissing in, having said yesterday that "It will work, if Reg Empey can be left alone to… more »

I've been thinking about having guest posts for some time now, and then this landed in my lap (or more precisely my inbox). Everything Ulster's first guest post is a radical conspiracy theory about the potential emergence of a new brand of fundamentalism… more »

Ironic maybe, that just a day after my "The Lady's Not For Turning" post, (indicating that even with the return of a devolved executive, our overlords in the Labour cabinet won't allow local politicians to take decisions on matters that are actually impo… more »