Wreaths have been laid in memory of two young police officers shot dead by the IRA three days before Bloody Sunday.

Flowers were laid at the Kingsmill memorial and a service held at the site of the ambush on January 5 ... as an “overtly sectarian attack by the IRA”. The IRA, on ceasefire at the time ...

MacBride went on to become an international statesman. He was a joint founder of Amnesty International in 1961, United ...

Hundreds of IRA suspects in Northern Ireland would be interned under a new ... Ten days later Michael Collins was killed in a guerrilla-style ambush at Béal na mBláth, Co. Cork.

‘Colombia Three’ member Martin McCauley believes “UK authorities” are plotting to send him back to South America after a ...

If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism ... Just a few days later in Strabane, three IRA members were shot dead in a SAS ambush at an arms cache on the Plumbridge Road in the ...

Then, in Northern Ireland in 1986, a close friend was killed in an IRA ambush. Some claim these incidents were to result in his lifelong battle against mental illness. In 1988 he walked out of his ...

Ulster Unionist peer Lord Rogan has called on the Government to close the loophole which allows political parties standing ...

On August 15, 1998, the Real IRA visited a day of wanton carnage on the town of Omagh when a 500-pound bomb explosion took the lives of 29 people. Among the dead were unborn twins, babies ...