Dieter Reinisch

University of Galway

Dr Dieter Reinisch is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway

The PSNI say information from this month's data breach has made it into the hands of dissident republicans. Photo: PA

Who are the dissident republican groups behind PSNI data threats?

The PSNI data breach has focused attention again on dissident republican groups who are still operating in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland • 24 Aug 23

UDA and UFF murals in east Belfast. Photo: Kaveh Kazemi/ Getty Images

The loyalist paramilitary threat behind Northern Ireland's crisis

The loyalist influence on unionist parties has pushed the DUP towards disrupting any political progress in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland • 23 Feb 22

When the Maze prison closed in July 2000, among the last items to leave the compound were 10.000 books – which the IRA prisoners had collected since reading Freire in 1982.

The Brazilian educator who helped shape prisoners in the Maze

Paulo Freire's writings enabled IRA prisoners to perform a more active role in the outside republican movement and the peace process than in previous decades and given his influence, he could be considered the peace process's hidden enabler.

Paulo Freire • 24 Sep 21

How Portlaoise Prison set the stage for H-Blocks hunger strike

The circumstances which led to Bobby Sands embarking on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland in 1981 all started with the move of the republican prisoners from Mountjoy Prison to Portlaoise Prison.

Hunger Strikes • 21 Apr 21