Following their Spotlight on the Troubles series, BBC ran an astonishing Behind the Scenes program that must have left even those who thought they knew what happened in the Northern Irish Troubles doubt that they really knew what was going on.  The revelations turned the Troubles into a real life version of John Le Carre’s […]

I had no reply to the letter sent in September featured in last week’s post – Spotlight on the Politicians.  Michelle O’Neill had a nothing response to a letter she sent the Northern Ireland Office.  Vaughn Gething’s office (Wales Health Minister), when asked, acknowledged receipt of the letter but figured they had only been sent […]

This Continues the Spotlight on the Suicides series.  Astonished by the conclusion of Stephen O’Neill’s inquest, I wrote to Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister, copied to the Ministers of Health in Ireland, Simon Harris, in Wales Vaughan Gething, and in England Matt Hancock, along with the Danish MEP, Margrete Auken, the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly […]

This post continues the Spotlight on the Suicides series. There were 8 named people in Stephen O’Neill’s medical record, or who made entries in the record between the time of first admission and his death.  He appears to have told most of them that in his view the sertraline he had been put on and […]

Continuing the Spotlight on the Suicides Series I have largely avoided naming names and will continue to avoid putting names in the frame but Stephen’s family doctor’s name, Dr Brannigan, is already in the public domain, and I’ve made it clear that the coroner thought highly of him and the whole point behind these posts […]