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 […]

This continues the Spotlight on Suicides Series – The photograph is of Patrick McGurgan – the coroner.  Mr McGurgan appeared to be a decent man.  He treated everyone with courtesy and appeared to be listening.  His conclusions at the end of the inquest provoked a correspondence from me that will be posted later in this […]

This is part 2 of Spotlight on the Suicides. In February 2017, I received the email below.  The email address gave no hint of where it came from – it could have been any English speaking country but the word Trust in the second and fourth paragraphs suggested England. The details seemed clear enough for […]

Northern Ireland has been at the centre of European, even world politics, over the last three years, as a result of a referendum in Britain that was held with little, if any, thought of the possible consequences for Ireland. If an alien zooming towards Earth burst through the atmosphere and was faced with the Western […]