Armagh Brigade News Today

Sinn Fein MP John Finucane will speak at an IRA commemoration today despite more than a week of calls for him to pull out.

A planned commemoration event for IRA members at which Sinn Fein’s John Finucane has been listed as a speaker has been condemned by a victims’ organisation.

Crossmaglen, a notorious border town in Northern Ireland, is trying to lay the past to rest – even when that comes at the expense of justice

Gerry Adams is being sued in the High Court by three victims of terror attacks for his alleged role in masterminding three IRA bombings in 1996 and 1973, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Workers Revolutionary Party   BY FRA HUGHES ‘THEY will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal,’ Bobby Sands. The 1980 Hunger Strike led by Brendan Hughes comprised of seven Republican male prisoners at Her Majesty’s Cellular Prison, the Maze, also known as Long Kesh Prison Camp and three fem...

How IRA and the Troubles industrialised people smuggling in Ireland Henry McDonald and Rory Carroll © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Radharc Images/Alamy For as long there has been a border on the island of Ireland, smugglers have exploited the lawless roads stretching from the South Armagh to North Louth region in the east, all the way to the Fermanagh frontier with Donegal in the Irish Republic in the west. But smuggling in the region has evolved from a localised phen...