Tributes paid after death of former NI Civil Service chief Kenneth Bloomfield
Sir Kenneth began his career in public service in the 1950s and survived an IRA bomb attack on his home in 1988
Irish Republican Army
This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that split to form contemporary groups, such as the Provisional IRA, Real IRA, and Continuity IRA, which were active during the Troubles in Northern Ireland and beyond.
‘Tháinig ár lá’: Lawyers agree €100,000 damages award is undeniable win for Gerry Adams and republicanism generally
Dublin jury found BBC Northern Ireland programme Spotlight defamed former Sinn Féin leader in 2016
BBC faces legal costs bill of more than €3m after jury finds it defamed Gerry Adams
Former Sinn Féin president said he took case to ‘put manners on British Broadcasting Corporation’
Awarding €100,000 to Gerry Adams is like spitting on the graves of those killed by IRA, says Austin Stack
Austin Stack (56) was a teenager in 1983 when his father, Brian, was shot by the IRA
Gerry Adams v BBC libel case: What the jury didn’t hear
Mr Justice Owens ruled that evidence of Denis Donaldson’s daughter was not relevant to questions to be decided by jury
The contrast between Kneecap charges and flag-festooned Northern Ireland is absurd
Complaints of one-sided treatment may often be simplistic or partisan, but that only underscores the corrosive effect of inconsistent application of the law
Human remains discovered at site of previous search for ‘Disappeared’ victim
Joe Lynskey was abducted, shot dead and secretly buried by the IRA in August 1972
‘Nobody knew things were going to get so bad’: Catholic RUC officer’s defaced headstone at centre of Troubles exhibition
Exhibition part of efforts to help people on both sides of the Border who are suffering due to traumatic experiences caused by terrorism
A former British army officer and author on former IRA members opening up to him: ‘Trust is a huge issue’
Jonathan Trigg says it has been slow work getting former IRA members to open up to him, but some have done so, sharing their experiences and thoughts - and asking about British army training
Gerry Adams defamation trial: laughs from the jury, a judge’s intervention and a ‘very fine story’ about a hedgehog
Former Sinn Féin president tells judge the IRA attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher was ‘legitimate’
Gerry Adams tells defamation trial he never joined the IRA
Judge tells jury claims made in documentaries they are being shown may be relevant to the issue of Adams’s reputation
Gerry Adams defamation case: Former Sinn Féin leader ‘not prepared to speculate’ on who was or was not in IRA
Court hears Adams continues to work with families of three men ‘disappeared’ by the IRA during Troubles who have not been found
Journalists pay tribute to late Lyra McKee as her picture is unveiled at Belfast’s Reporters Bar
Accomplished writer and campaigner died after being struck in the head by a bullet in Derry
Radio review: ‘It sounded like a big mosquito’ - anger over drones fills the airwaves
Radio: RTÉ presenter is a likable substitute for Joe Duffy, while Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy launches an unusual free-speech crusade
Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972 by Forest Issac Jones
A wide-ranging story about connections between the two civil rights movements
Kingsmill massacre report: Watchdog identifies series of failings in investigation
Ten Protestant men shot by republican gunmen posing as British soldiers in 1976
The last confession of ‘Disappeared’ IRA man Joe Lynskey – a priest recalls, more than 50 years on
For the first time, an Irish priest tells the story of the confession he heard from Joe Lynskey shortly before he was murdered by the IRA a half-century ago
Memoirs of Dan Mulvihill: Fulfilling the dream of a veteran of the old IRA
A tape recording from 1984 revealed an elderly republican’s ambition to publish his life story - four decades on, it has finally come to pass
Justice for my Father by Austin Stack: An account of 40 years of relentless probing into prison officer’s IRA murder
Story of Brian Stack’s killing and its aftermath is an important and bleak retrospective on Ireland during the Troubles
Joe Lynskey Disappeared case: ‘When he came out of the monastery he came out for the cause. And the cause executed him’
Maria Lynskey had the funeral arrangements in place for her uncle before her family’s hopes of finding his remains were dashed for the second time in a decade
‘They may never get closure’: Annyalla locals on Lynskey family’s search for murdered relative
Co Monaghan village residents fear remains of Joe Lynskey, one of the IRA’s Disappeared, may never be found
Joe Lynskey remains are not those exhumed in Monaghan, tests show
Grave did not contain remains of murdered former IRA member or ‘any of the Disappeared’, says independent commission
Freddie Scappaticci’s final years in a sleepy Surrey town: Neighbours were ‘sickened’ when they found out who he really was
The man known as Stakeknife, a senior British army agent in the IRA, was hidden away in middle-class suburban comfrot in Guildford
Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
Delving into her family history led author Ali Watkins to explore one of the least known and most effective gunrunning operations in contemporary American history, and the ways the Irish diaspora view Ireland
Minister for Justice seeks approval to provide Special Criminal Court judgments to UK’s Omagh bomb inquiry
The non-jury SCC lacks power to order transcripts, High Court judge hears
The Sorrow and the Loss by Martin Dillon: Women whose lives were blighted by the Troubles
Too often the reader is left wanting to know more about these women and their lives
Sinn Féin’s Doherty defends going to funeral of ‘friend’ and ex-IRA man ‘Bik’ McFarlane
Sinn Féin has faced criticism for its tributes to Brendan McFarlane, who died last month
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane obituary: IRA figure linked to kidnapping, killings and prisoner escape
He became a firm supporter of the peace process
UK ‘has not ruled out’ inquiry into killings by Provisional IRA internal security unit
UK government’s argues the issue needs to be revisited after final Operation Kenova report is produced, solicitor representing family of one of the victims says
Michael Lowry’s actions ‘pale into insignificance’ against IRA, says Martin
Tipperary TD seeking to make personal statement to Dáil, Verona Murphy says
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Pearse Doherty among mourners at funeral of former senior IRA member
Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane led a mass break-out in September 1983
Former justice minister criticises McDonald’s tribute to late IRA figure ‘Bik’ McFarlane
Charlie Flanagan describes tribute as ‘nauseating’
Former senior Provisional IRA figure ‘Bik’ McFarlane dies aged 74
McFarlane was IRA commander in the Maze prison during the 1981 hunger strikes
Inquest findings in SAS shooting of four IRA men referred to prosecutors
Judge says he is obliged to send a report to DPP if evidence indicates criminal offence may have been committed
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