Donal Lavery

The Noah Donohoe Scandal Donal Lavery

''The post-mortem raises more questions than answers.'' - The spokesperson for the Donohoe Family. June 2020. The location: a suburban, Loyalist heartland renown for right-wing extremism and sectarian murder-gangs forming the infamous 'murder mile' in North Belfast, where brutal hate crimes on youths had recently occurred. The scene: the naked body of a fourteen-year-old, Irish Catholic, Black schoolboy, who had been cycling to meet his friends, only to be found dead in a storm-drain the authorities had already inspected just days before, while a worldwide pandemic gripped the population. After an intensive search and rescue mission, Noah was discovered. Sadly, transparency was not. With the autopsy report having stated that he died by 'drowning', greater controversy was fueled when questions were asked. How had the promising young teenager ended up in the restricted confines where he died? Was this just a 'tragic accident' or 'foul play'? Noah's family, and the public at large, are still waiting for answers. In The Noah Donohoe Scandal, well-known local and national commentator and journalist D?nal Lavery attempts to provide an authoritative account of the enormity surrounding one of the most mysterious and unusual cases to shock this island in decades. Dónal Lavery was born in North Belfast in 1991. After university, he has worked as a Civil Servant and in the financial sector. He has spent the last four years as a part-time Commentator and is never afraid to express a view on any of the big issues of the day. He is a general advocate for Autism awareness and Crohn's Disease.