🖊️Written by renowned historian Edward Burke and publishing this week, Ghosts of a Family is a riveting cold-case investigation that explores how the ramifications of Ireland's most infamous unsolved murder are still being felt to this day. 🛍️Preview & preorder on our website

Given our history, we of all people should understand the importance of intervening ‘left of boom’. 💥 Deter, detect & disrupt early. Lack of a parliamentary oversight committee for Intelligence & Security makes 🇮🇪 a significant outlier. This should be rectified in next Dáil.

'Ireland needs a review of its intelligence services.' My article in today's The Irish Times

This is a really clear argument from Edward Burke for reviewing & reforming Ireland's intelligence (and wider cyber) arrangements to improve national security. As he argues, the risks are all too foreseeable, which should concentrate minds/resolve on urgent progress.

I condemn the Israeli airstrike this morning on a «safe zone» in Khan Younis. All parties have an obligation to protect civilians in warfare. The presence of armed groups does not nullify the obligation to comply with international humanitarian law. The war must end.

Reposting this here. Thanks again to MacGill Summer School Pauric Dempsey for facilitating this exchange with New Zeland SIS's Brigadier Phil McKee in Donegal on intelligence / global security threats.

In an internet café in Saigon.

Golf clubs.

5 years of research into the veterans who led loyalist gangs in Belfast in 1921/1922. In some ways they resembled Birmingham's 'Peaky Blinders' or Glasgow's 'Billy Boys'. Except they were more violent. Noel Doran The Irish News will speak at the No Alibis Bookstore launch. All welcome.

What a mess. “The United States may allow Ukraine to use British and French missiles but not its own longer-range weapons inside Russia, according to two sources familiar with discussions that have taken place.” thetimes.com/world/russia-u…

Timely British-Irish relations / GFA intervention by Bertie Ahern via Mark Hennessy ITCommonGround irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Thoughtful read on national security in #Ireland and the “democratic paradox” 🕵🏻‍♂️

Thought for the Day - We need more historians of Britain in Ireland.

Minutes away from an away win for Forest in Anfield?! September is looking up. #NFFC

My new book arrived. I had some help opening the box! irishacademicpress.ie/product/ghosts…

This one looks super!

A compelling, if sad, story from one of our former Irish Studies QUB HAPP at Queen's students Nadia Dobrianska

My thanks to David Roy and The Irish News for this coverage of my book - Ghosts of a Family: Ireland's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles. Launch - No Alibis Bookshop, Belfast, tomorrow @ 6.30. irishacademicpress.ie/product/ghosts…

Edward Burke The Irish News My pleasure Ed, online version available here: irishnews.com/entertainment/…

“ethnic minority communities have been advised by the PSNI to consult with community leaders linked to paramilitary organisations” Grim.