In this feature from our archives Irish journalist, John Breslin, charts the rise and fall of the infamous Boston crime lord, Whitey Bulger, who was found dead in his prison cell earlier today.

James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was a murderer and violent criminal but it was the long-accepted fact he was an FBI informant that he was most concerned with denying, writes Michael Clifford

The star witness at the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the reputed gangster’s former partner, tried to counter the defence’s claims that he’s a paedophile by lobbing the same accusation back at Bulger.