Spotlight

A studio audience discussion. Panellists are Sinn Fein’s Mairtin O Muilleoir, DUP’s Edwin Poots, Alliance leader Naomi Long, historian Diarmaid Ferriter and economist Liam Halligan. Noel Thompson presents.

With the DUP’s 10 MPs at the heart of the Brexit debate, Conor Spackman asks why the government has seemingly repeatedly misjudged its partners in power.

As the pace of political events intensifies, Jim Fitzpatrick examines the latest developments ahead of a crucial meeting of European leaders this week that will determine the fate of Brexit.

Two days before voters go to the polls in the European election, Noel Thompson hosts a debate with 6 candidates in front of a studio audience.

The controversial far-right group Britain First has based itself in Northern Ireland. Stephen Dempster investigates the organisation and accusations of violence and criminality in its ranks.

Following the murder of Lyra McKee in April, Spotlight investigates the New IRA. With reporter Conor Spackman.

Conor Spackman examines the challenges posed to the PSNI by the New IRA and other dissident republicans.

New contenders for Theresa May's job are promising to leave the EU without a deal. We examine what that will mean for NI and follow new MEP Naomi Long to Brussels to find out more.

Ian Paisley MP faces new questions over trips to the Maldives in a special Spotlight investigation.

Northern Ireland’s leading team of investigative journalists reveal important new discoveries about the outbreak of the conflict known as the Troubles, 50 years after troops were deployed.

New revelations about how the IRA went from anticipating victory to fighting a bloody, long war against Britain, with Gerry Adams emerging as the republican leader of his time.

Jennifer O’Leary uncovers IRA arms connections around the world and charts how republicans built a political strategy in parallel with their armed campaign.

New revelations about how agents of British intelligence infiltrated the Irish Republican Army. By 1979, the British security forces believed the IRA had become so security conscious that they were impossible to penetrate. But reporter Jennifer O’Leary reveals how one weakness in the IRA’s internal security was exploited to unlock many of the group’s secrets. She charts how Britain used informers and combined that advantage in secret intelligence with the use of special forces to take on one of the IRA’s deadliest units – a strategy that culminated with the Loughgall ambush, when the SAS killed eight IRA men attacking a police station. The programme shows that the aftermath of the attack only made the IRA’s informer problem worse.

Episode five traces how unionist anger grew as IRA attacks on the security forces killed members of their community. When Margaret Thatcher signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, giving the Republic of Ireland political influence in the North, the anger spilled over into talk of insurrection. The programme reveals how loyalist groups rearmed and used intelligence leaks from soldiers and police to boost their campaign of killing, including new information about MI5 agents operating inside the largest loyalist group, the Ulster Defence Association.

Revelations from the Northern Ireland conflict. Loyalists killed more people than the IRA in the closing years of the Troubles. Through an insider in one of the most notorious killer gangs, Mandy McAuley discovers that not only was the Ulster Volunteer Force carrying out more attacks, it was also deliberately targeting families of Irish republicans. Revelations about the murders of two young brothers lead to calls for the investigation into the killings to be reopened.

The End Game. How the IRA's war stopped after 25 years of conflict.

This film shows how the critically acclaimed television series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History was made. Reporters, producers – even the bosses – were filmed over two years as they uncovered incredible new stories about the past. How did Jennifer O'Leary persuade a former missionary priest to reveal his role in smuggling money and weapons to the IRA? How did Darragh Macintyre find out the British and American intelligence connections to a long-hidden documentary about a senior IRA man? And how did Mandy McAuley discover that a church charity worker was actually a suspect in a series of murders across Mid Ulster?

A studio audience put questions to politicians and opinion-formers in a Brexit special. Noel Thompson chairs.

Kevin Lunney, a senior executive in cross border company QIH, who was abducted and tortured by a gang in September speaks publicly for the first time to Jim Fitzpatrick in an exclusive interview for BBC Spotlight. He details the horror of his ordeal and what it’s like living under threat of death.

Following the death of Cyril McGuinness, the main suspect in the kidnap and torture of cross border businessman Kevin Lunney, Jim Fitzpatrick examines the criminal career of the man nicknamed Dublin Jimmy. Plus he talks to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar about law and order in the border area.

Spotlight’s Stephen Dempster investigates allegations that a paedophile network abused boys in the Enniskillen area in the 80s and 90s and hears the harrowing story of a man who says he was one of the victims.

Northern Ireland has the worst hospital waiting lists in the UK. Datshiane Navanayagam investigates.