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TWO YEARS after the epic 1981 H-Block Hunger Strike in which ten young republicans died, there was another epic event at Long Kesh that dealt a huge blow to the Thatcher regime in Ireland. This was...

1 The IRA and me: “We need to see you about something”

This column will be in Cork, le cuidiu Dia, to attend the National Hunger Strike Commemoration on Sunday. It’s the first time that this annual even...

In some courts, people are awaiting trials for 27 months.

Members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) will travel to Northern Ireland "to highlight American support for those fighting for legacy truth."

Fifty members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians will begin a ten day fact-finding mission to Northern Ireland on Tuesday, April 19. The mission wi...

GERRY Adams wrote to the rector of Clonard Monastery on the eve of the IRA's 1994 ceasefire saying the "potentially historic opportunity" would not have been possible about without Fr Alec Reid.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the murders of Army Private Patrick Kelly and trainee Garda Gary Sheehan. They were killed by the Provisional IRA in Derrada Woods in Co Leitrim in 1983 while trying to rescue kidnapped businessman Don Tidey. Private Kelly and Garda Sheehan were not members of the Black and Tans. Private Kelly and Garda Sheehan were not members of the Parachute Regiment. Private Kelly and Garda Sheehan were serving this State against a terrorist criminal threat. Private Kelly and ...