Mark Hennessy

Mark Hennessy

Ireland and Britain Editor

Mark Hennessy is Ireland and Britain Editor of the The Irish Times. He is a former News editor, London editor and political correspondent

Gardaí sacrificed IRA informer to protect a more useful one, ex-Special Branch officer claims

Murder victim John Corcoran’s fate was sealed by a ‘vacuum of silence and inaction by Garda officers of the highest rank’, JP O’Sullivan says

Our Martin and All the Dead Voices: two republican takes on three decades of violence

Jim McVeigh writes the apologia for Martin McGuinness’s life, while Sinn Féin figure Danny Morrison revises and updates his memoir

UK defence of Ireland of less concern to public than thought, conference told

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly hears strong case for European democracies to work more closely together

Shared Ireland programme cannot be used to push cause of Irish unity, Jack Chambers says

British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly meeting taking place in Tralee, Co Kerry

Upgrade of A5 road linking Derry and Tyrone being blocked by ‘vexatious’ complaints

Minister for Public Expenditure Jack Chambers says route is ‘probably the most critical North-South road project’

Fuel costs support will be temporary and quickly withdrawn, Minister says

Jack Chambers warns Middle East conflict could have ‘biggest impact on the global economy for decades’

‘There’s a bit of romanticisation about the Troubles’: Student views on Irish unity

UCD politics students say northerners and southerners have much to learn about each other before any thought of unification

Sudden end to Gerry Adams trial could deter others from pursuing claims

London case discontinued after possibility was raised of claimants facing six-figure legal bill

Concern over legal costs brings Gerry Adams’s eight-day London high court odyssey to end

Former Sinn Féin leader leaves with win and a legal bill that, had case gone the other way, could have seen him facing huge claims

Judge made ‘extraordinary’ interventions in Gerry Adams civil case, accusers’ lawyers say

‘This outcome is not of the claimants’ making’, says McCue Jury solicitors, after action by three bombing survivors dropped

Gerry Adams welcomes decision by three victims of IRA bombings to drop civil action against him

Judge had asked plaintiffs why the case against Adams should not be dropped on two grounds

Legal case against Gerry Adams should not be thrown out, says lawyer

Three victims of IRA bombs in England are taking civil case against former Sinn Féin leader, seeking damages of £1

Gerry Adams recalls ‘very bad history’ of British rule as London civil case nears end

‘I came here to reject the accusations levelled against me’, former Sinn Féin leader says

Adams denies authorship of column claiming he was ‘rightly or wrongly’ IRA volunteer

Former Sinn Féin leader says he was not ‘Brownie’, pen name of An Phoblacht article written in Long Kesh prison

Judgment in Gerry Adams case will take some time but there was no new ‘smoking gun’

Former Sinn Féin leader spent two days in the witness box of a London court rejecting claims he was in the IRA

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