Everyday Evacuations, Inside Ulster

In Belfast, the worst of the bombing and burning was over by the time I tipped into the BBC newsroom in 1984. On bad days, I was never the news editor’s first choice for the really tough stories, even though I kept a black overcoat handy (“You never know when you’ll need to go to

Iris: Motes, beams and what goes on behind mirrored sunglasses.

The Blarney Crone was once an ace girl reporter for a program called Spotlight on the BBC in Northern Ireland. Actually, that’s not true. She was a barely adequate girl reporter on the aforementioned program and certainly came nowhere near breaking a story like the one sprung by Spotlight this week. The program revealed that