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Peter Geoghegan is an Irish writer and journalist based in Glasgow. His books include ‘A Difficult Difference: Race, Religion and the ‘new’ Northern Ireland’.

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Revealed: how loopholes allowed pro-Brexit campaign to spend ‘as much as necessary to win’

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 18 September 2017

New tranche of Electoral Commission emails show how Vote Leave gave a student £675,000 overnight – and the worrying implications for British democracy.

Growing up on the border: on Brexit’s Irish problem

Peter Geoghegan 31 July 2017

People voted to take back control of the UK's borders... with little thought for what that would mean for the only actual land border.

Leadsom campaign chair denies involvement in dark-money funded poll which boosted her campaign

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 24 July 2017

The MP who ran Andrea Leadsom’s leadership bid tells openDemocracy that he wasn’t involved in commissioning a key opinion poll which boosted her campaign and was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

Key poll which boosted Leadsom’s leadership bid funded by DUP’s dark-money donors

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 22 July 2017

An important poll which added momentum to Andrea Leadsom’s campaign to become prime minister was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.

Release details of DUP Brexit ‘dark money’, MPs tells Northern Ireland Secretary

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 11 July 2017

Why is James Brokenshire colluding with the DUP to cover up Northern Irish donations between 2014 and 2017?

The new Brexit minister, the arms industry, the American hard right… and Equatorial Guinea

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 1 July 2017

Steve Baker, the new Brexit minister, has taken cash from the shady Constitutional Research Council… and a whole lot of other people too.

Meet the Soopa Doopa branding agency that delivered Brexit

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 26 June 2017

How did all of the different Leave campaigns stumble upon the same obscure branding agency in Ely, if they weren't working as a coordinated campaign? 

The dark money driving the Scottish Tory surge

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 5 June 2017

Electoral Commission 'looking into' Scottish Tory £100,000 donation after openDemocracy exposes potential rule breach.

How dark money is drowning British democracy

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 5 June 2017

Organisations which fund political parties are meant to declare all major donations they receive. Yet only one ever has.

Meet the Scottish Tory behind the £425,000 DUP Brexit donation

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 19 May 2017

Senior Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is at the centre of a major Brexit funding scandal.

DUP Donaldson can’t remember why his Brexit campaign spent more than £32,000 on controversial data analytics company linked to Trump

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 16 May 2017

Was it a coincidence that different Leave campaign groups used the same obscure Canadian firm? Or was there potentially illegal co-ordination between campaigns?

Democratic Unionist Party Brexit campaign manager admits he didn’t know about its mysterious donor’s links to the Saudi intelligence service

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 16 May 2017

Jeffrey Donaldson MP should have ensured that a £435,000 donation his party accepted came from a legitimate source. Did he?

Electoral Commission contradicts DUP on Brexit donor transparency

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 1 March 2017

Did Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party do the checks the law requires of it before accepting a vast donation for its Brexit campaign?

The strange link between the DUP Brexit donation and a notorious Indian gun running trial

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 28 February 2017

We still don’t know how how key Leave campaign adverts were funded, but the one man who has been named has some surprising relationships...

Secretive DUP Brexit donor links to the Saudi intelligence service

Adam Ramsay and Peter Geoghegan 24 February 2017

The DUP's revelation about their Brexit donation leaves us with more questions than answers...

The 'dark money' that paid for Brexit

Peter Geoghegan and Adam Ramsay 15 February 2017

The secret cash that bankrolled Brexit, the loophole it's hiding in, and how we unravel it.

The BBC's Northern Irish Troubles

Peter Geoghegan 5 January 2016

From its inception as an unabashedly ‘unionist’ organization, the BBC in Belfast has had a problematic history. Has the corporation of today managed to shake off the dilemmas of the past?

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