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

A MASSACHUSETTS judge has ordered fugitive mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger and a cohort to pay $15 million (€10m) each to the family of a 26-year-old woman after finding them liable for her 1981 murder.