Ann Lovett: do her last letters shed light on her tragic death?
The story of teenager Ann Lovett, who concealed her pregnancy and died shortly after giving birth alone in a grotto in Grandard, County Longford, is a defining tragedy of 1980s Ireland.
The circumstances of Ann's pregnancy and death were cloaked in silence for decades.
Three months after Ann …
Here’s How 55 – Tuam Babies and Media Coverage
Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked Online. His 2014 article that we discussed is here, and the interim report of the Mother And Baby Homes Commission Of Investigations is here. The second part of my coverage of this topic will be published next week. The global infant mortality statistics that…
Episode 2 - Black Notice
‘Peter Bergmann’ isn’t his real name. The Vienna address he gives at the hotel doesn’t exist. Bags seen on CCTV are never found, including a purple plastic bag he is seen with 13 times over three days. What was in it? Where did he empty it? And why all the secrecy?
Irish Times journalist Rosita Bo…
Episode 1 - Dead Man’s Point
‘Peter Bergmann’ isn’t his real name. The Vienna address he gives at the hotel doesn’t exist. Bags seen on CCTV are never found, including a purple plastic bag he is seen with 13 times over three days. What was in it? Where did he empty it? And why all the secrecy?
Irish Times journalist Rosita Bo…
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Things Fall Apart
This week we visit Sligo County, Ireland on a June day in 2009. Today we’re not the only tourists in town.. Who was the mysterious Peter Bergmann (or failing that) why did he go to Sligo, of all places to die?
Content Warnings: Suicide, terminal illness, spousal abuse, marriage breakups, war…
Who was the millionaire who died in a homeless hostel in Galway?
For years Victor Spaggiari was a familiar sight on the streets of Galway.
A homeless man, he lived in the Cope Hostel and spent his days sitting on a bench in the city. He spoke little, caused no trouble and seemed content. When he died in 2024 aged 65, his funeral was small and he was buried in th…
Atlantic, part three: The Black Notice
For a decade, the Sligo gardaí and Interpol have worked together to try to find out who the man calling himself Peter Bergmann really was. Nobody has ever come forward to identify him and he lies buried in an unmarked grave in Sligo. Will we ever find out his true identity?
Atlantic was first publi…
Atlantic, part two: The Golden Man
It became clear that the man calling himself Peter Bergmann had deliberately chosen Sligo as a place to come to disappear. He gave a false name and address at the hotel. He secretly disposed of his possessions. Everything pointed to a plan to vanish into the Atlantic at night – but the autopsy reve…
Atlantic, part one: Land of Heart's Desire
In June 2009, the body of a man was found on Rosses Point beach in Co Sligo. He had checked into a Sligo hotel five days previously using the name Peter Bergmann. No one came forward to claim the body and gardaí in Sligo gradually began to realise they were dealing with a mystery.
Atlantic was firs…
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