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Of all the crimes committed in Northern Ireland, Pat Finucane's murder is the one which successive British governments, of whatever hue, have most resisted investigating. The 1989 murder in Belfast is examined again in a new piece for the New York Times by Megan Stack.

Irish News chairman Jim Fitzpatrick has left an indelible imprint on both this newspaper and the wider community which it serves.

Let Theresa May, Who Has Not Sinned, Cast the First Stone: the 32-year cover-up of the Finucane assassination, its link to Kincora and the hypocrisy of the former prime minister. by This week marks the 32 nd anniversary of the assassination of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane. In 1989 he was shot dead by UDA killers controlled by MI5 in front of his young family at his home. The British government continues to resist a judicial inquiry into the murder despite castigation from its own Supreme Court and human rights groups across...

A new potted biography of former paramilitary Glen Barr says that he helped convince the Libyan regime to halt its support for the IRA – albeit only temporarily.