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Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland

Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland

As he publishes his new memoir, Eyewitness to War and Peace, veteran journalist Eamonn Mallie chats to David Roy about dedicating his professional life to covering momentous events during the Troubles and beyond...

Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour Party Leader Dick Spring has paid tribute to the late John Bruton, describing him as a man of strong conviction with unbounded commitment to public service.

The RAF Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, on June 2 1994, in foggy conditions killing everybody on board.

Files seen for the first time detail how her 1980s Government worked feverishly in private to close every loophole the MI5 memoir could slip through.

State papers published this week include confidential records showing what civil servants really thought about the North’s political leaders

Former Northern secretary saw the UUP leader David Trimble as ‘a deeply insecure leader’

Senior NIO officials were split on whether the Government should break off contact with the political representatives of loyalist paramilitaries at a point where loyalist murders were dramatically increasing in the early 1990s, a previously secret document has revealed.

Having helped pave the way for the Downing Street Declaration and peace in Northern Ireland, the former Labour leader is wary of being seen to preach to generations with no memory of the Troubles