North’s DPP seeks PSNI inquiry on shoot-to-kill policy claimsBarra McGrory views allegations against British army undercover force with ‘great concern’Sat Nov 23 2013 - 07:43
Sinn Féin are ‘failures and they know it ’, DUP deputy leader saysNigel Dodds launches full-scale attack on main partner in Northern ExecutiveFri Nov 22 2013 - 20:37
North’s peacemaker priest Fr Alec Reid dies in DublinTipperary priest was best known for his work during TroublesFri Nov 22 2013 - 15:21
Tributes paid to ‘pillar’ of the peace process Fr Alec ReidAdams: He was also a very good friend of mine, of my wife, of my familyFri Nov 22 2013 - 12:40
British to investigate claims on 1972 shoot-to-kill policyAmnesty calls for inquiry into allegations of undercover army drive-by killingsFri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00
Larkin was within rights to make his ‘unacceptable’ proposals about the past, says RobinsonFri Nov 22 2013 - 01:00
History can help reconciliation, President Higgins says in BelfastPresident praises role of Ian PaisleyThu Nov 21 2013 - 23:18
Radical proposal may hold clues to future of the search for truthA debate that takes place mostly in the background is now front and centreThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:02
Anger at call to draw line under past Northern killingsAG John Larkin said his call for no prosecutions was “logical” outworking of Belfast AgreementThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:01
Larkin profile: regularly in spotlight and never far from controversyLarkin viewed as QC who ultimately will sit on the High Court benchThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Army 'sanctioned shoot-to-kill policy' in BelfastSeveral people killed and wounded by secret British army unit, according to PanoramaThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Proposal by North’s Attorney General generates negative reactionTaoiseach and British PM distance themselves from John Larkin’s suggestionThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Is there merit in Larkin’s proposals?Analysis: North’s Attorney General must have a thick neck to face inevitable backlashWed Nov 20 2013 - 11:38
Assembly supports motion on DisappearedSinn Fein refuses to endorse motion because of reference to allegation that Gerry Adams was implicated in murder of Jean McConvilleWed Nov 20 2013 - 01:02
Haass hopes negotiations can yield early Christmas presentTalks on parades and flags to start in second week of DecemberTue Nov 19 2013 - 01:02
Deal on NI parades, flags and the past ‘do-able’, says HaassProcess now ‘shifting gear’ into intensive period of talks, according to US diplomatMon Nov 18 2013 - 13:43
Founders of new ‘centrist and pro-union’ party in North to target non-votersEx-UUP members McCrea and McCallister to stand candidates in EU and local pollsMon Nov 18 2013 - 01:00
New NI party seeks more devolved powersNI21 is headed by former UUP MLAs Basil McCrea and John McAllisterSat Nov 16 2013 - 14:19
SDLP recalls painful past while looking to the electoral challenges of the futureSeamus Mallon and other party veterans reflect on period when party members were murderedMon Nov 11 2013 - 01:01
Level of British collusion with loyalist gangs was shocking, Alasdair McDonnell tells his party annual conferenceSDLP leader adds that collusion ‘never ever justified a single IRA atrocity’Mon Nov 11 2013 - 01:01
Dublin and London have had to reassert roles as co-guarantors of Belfast Agreement, says TánaisteEamon Gilmore praises role of Irish Association on its 75th anniversarySun Nov 10 2013 - 22:09
Taoiseach lays wreath for Remembrance Sunday in NorthEnda Kenny in Enniskillen tells personal impact of IRA Poppy Day bombingSun Nov 10 2013 - 13:20
British collusion with loyalist gangs ‘shocking’- SDLP leaderAlasdair McDonnell tells party’s annual conference collusion ‘never ever justified a single IRA atrocity’Sat Nov 09 2013 - 16:10
North-South leaders condemn failed murder attempt on former PSNI officerMartin McGuinness says dissident republicans living in ‘cloud cuckoo land’Sat Nov 09 2013 - 01:00
Enda Kenny proposes all-Ireland soccer teamTaoiseach says team could take on England every two years to raise money for charityFri Nov 08 2013 - 12:46
Visitors moved by Belfast exhibition on the DisappearedUp to 10,000 people learn of the suffering and loss of bereaved familiesFri Nov 08 2013 - 01:00
SF members guilty of ‘moral cowardice’ on DisappearedLabour’s Ged Nash says Adams and former IRA members must ‘front up’ to help familiesThu Nov 07 2013 - 20:03
Keane is out of the question as the Alex Ferguson roadshow hits AberdeenFormer Manchester United manager refuses to answer questions on his former captainWed Nov 06 2013 - 01:01
Ferguson gives seal of approval to outstanding Corkman – but not that oneThe ‘incomparable’ Denis Irwin wins the praise of former Manchester United managerTue Nov 05 2013 - 01:00
Ombudsman investigating collusion claims in bookTwenty-four families have asked for inquiry into more than 70 loyalist killingsFri Oct 25 2013 - 06:40
Loyalism’s most prolific sectarian killer may have enjoyed indefensible relationship with RUC officersDespite being linked to more than 50 sectarian murders, suspect not chargedFri Oct 25 2013 - 01:00
Book lifts lid on over 120 killings by loyalist gangs‘Lethal Allies’ asks why the authorities did not move properly to stop the killingsThu Oct 24 2013 - 07:48
Hundreds attend Shankill bombing commemorationLocal people joined bereaved and injured to remember nine who died in blast 20 years agoThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00
Organiser defends Miss Ulster beauty pageantTwo Assembly member judges withdraw because of size restrictions on entrantsWed Oct 23 2013 - 01:00
Revised NI abortion guidelines to be published soonDPP advice on criminal law on abortion ‘helpful’, officials tell Stormont committeeTue Oct 22 2013 - 16:50
Belfast to get new £250 million children’s hospitalDUP Minister for Finance announces project in allocation of funds to Stormont departmentsMon Oct 21 2013 - 20:30
Nesbitt says he forced Robinson’s Maze U-turnUUP leader proposes international mental health centre as alternativeMon Oct 21 2013 - 08:45
Ulster Unionist Party unity may actually expose weaknessLeader Mike Nesbitt’s opposition to Maze peace and reconciliation centre could lead to charge he is afraid of historySun Oct 20 2013 - 22:16
Prosecution of soldiers for Bloody Sunday could be ‘disastrous’ - MPArrests and questioning of former British soldiers not imminent, PSNI sources saySun Oct 20 2013 - 16:57
Loyalists protest over plaque for Shankill bomberRepublicans commemorate Thomas Begley who died when bomb prematurely explodedSun Oct 20 2013 - 16:43
UUP leader says North needs a new ‘inclusive’ covenantNesbitt proposes international mental health centre as alternative to Maze peace centreSat Oct 19 2013 - 14:05
First Minister attends dinner honouring work of GAARobinson says attendance at such an event ‘not so many years ago’ would have been unimaginableFri Oct 18 2013 - 09:53
Thaw slowly setting in between GAA and unionism after years of mutual suspicionAnalysis: attitudes changing as North awakes to possibilities offered by detenteFri Oct 18 2013 - 01:00
Adams under pressure over knowlege of abuse by his brotherSinn Féin president’s adversaries believe he is vulnerableTue Oct 15 2013 - 08:22
Gerry Adams says he is being subjected to ‘trial by media’ over his sexual abuser brotherSinn Féin leader complains DUP is exploiting issue in a ‘despicable manner’Sat Oct 12 2013 - 01:23
Message is clear: stop squabbling and get on with itBritish PM stresses a ‘tiny minority’ of dissidents would not disrupt progessSat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00
David Cameron denies talk of Stormont powersharing crisisBritish prime minister says Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness ‘working well together’Sat Oct 12 2013 - 01:00
Woman carrying twins with fatal foetal abnormalities makes abortion appealStormont’s Minister for Health asked to let woman end pregnancy in Northern IrelandFri Oct 11 2013 - 01:00
Killings demonstrate to wider world that dissident threat hasn’t goneGroup’s main ‘success’ — in its terms — was murder of prison officer David BlackThu Oct 10 2013 - 16:29
Foetal abnormality no basis for abortion in Northern IrelandAnyone who unlawfully performs an abortion is liable to criminal prosecution with a maximum penalty of life in prisonThu Oct 10 2013 - 01:16
