Stormont’s extreme censorship of Famine remarks – and how we unravelled it

‘How I stumbled on Stormont’s new policy of extreme censorship - which means we’ll understand NI’s past less fully’.

That was the stark headline on a recent comment piece from my colleague Sam McBride – the Belfast Telegraph’s Northern Ireland editor.

He discovered the unannounced policy whilst exploring declassified files in London - a policy which has been used to cover-up official attitudes to the Famine.

Sam McBride joins Ciarán Dunbar to explain the story behind the headline.

Stormont’s extreme censorship of Famine remarks – and how we unravelled it

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