Sharon O'Neill

With pieces of work focusing on policing and justice. With wrongdoing of police across the UK in the dock, Northern Ireland saw its own fair share of scandals including one which resulted in a top cop losing her job. Sunday Life was ahead of the game on this, with the video of the disgraced officer drunk on the day she twice crashed her car. That Christmas Eve Superintendent Patricia Foy was on call to deal with an emergency if needed, but our exclusively obtained video showed she was in no fit state to do so. Right until we published we received a barrage of calls questioning the public interest in this story. We held firm as it was clear.

The murder of Chloe Mitchell was the most high-profile in recent years and happened against the backdrop of a huge debate about what more can be done to stop the upsurge in violence against women and girls. The 21-year-old was last seen alive near Ballymena town centre in June this year, her remains were found just over a week later. The media, the local community and beyond, followed every twist and turn in the awful case, but Chloe's family turned to Sunday Life to give them a voice. 2023 also saw the death of one of Northern Ireland most notorious terrorists - IRA man turned dissident Colm Murphy who was one of those responsible for the worst single atrocity of the Troubles - the Omagh bombing. The picture of him in later life shows him looking like any other ordinary man of his age. But Murphy was far from that and Sunday Life revealed who he really was.

All their stories are different in their own way, one holding someone in position of trust to account, another gave a voice to those often forgotten victims left behind, and the last gives a chilling insight into the serial killers of our bloody past. All had a real impact.