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Legal papers set out that Brian Nelson, a former British soldier who died in 2003, was actively involved in targeting the plaintiff and others for murder.
Gun victim who says British spy targeted him to receive £90,000

A gun victim who claims a British army spy targeted him for murder is to receive £90,000 in damages, the High Court in Belfast heard on Wednesday. Ea(...)

Eddie Fullerton, a Donegal county councillor who was killed by the UDA. His daughter Amanda wants a meeting with the Taoiseach to discuss the implications of the non-disclosure
PSNI fails to disclose information about killings by loyalists

The North’s police ombudsman has called for an independent review to be carried out after “significant, sensitive information” about Troubles killings(...)

Former US president Bill Clinton called on Northern politicians to follow the example of their predecessors and make compromises to allow the power-sharing institutions to be restored. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Blair and Ahern urge governments to end NI impasse

The British and Irish governments have been urged to devote greater energy to resolving the impasse in Northern Ireland by former taoiseach Bertie Ahe(...)

Figures from the PSNI’s statistics branch show that in 2013 there were 64 attacks from republican dissidents as well as ongoing loyalist paramilitary violence directed at their own communities. In 2017, the figure rose to 101 shootings and beatings. File photograph: PA
‘Punishment’ attacks in North rise 60% in four years

Paramilitary-style “punishment” shootings and beatings by republicans and loyalists have surged again across Northern Ireland in recent years, latest (...)

Paddy Harte TD at Leinster House in 1996.
The Island of Ireland Peace Park is a fitting tribute to Paddy Harte

This year marks the centenary of the Armistice and also the 20th anniversary of the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Flanders. From conception to ope(...)

Glen Barr “did what he did because he believed it was the right thing to do,” his funeral heard
Glen Barr’s ‘desire to help working class’ motivated him, funeral told

Former Ulster Defence Association (UDA) leader Glen Barr’s “desire to help the working class” had “motivated him into the political realm”, his funera(...)

Gary Haggarty: he agreed in 2010 to give evidence against up to 14 of his former UVF colleagues and two of his former police handlers. Photograph: Pacemaker
Gary Haggarty pleads guilty to 200 UVF crimes, including murders

So-called loyalist supergrass Gary Haggarty has been jailed for life after he pleaded guilty to a catalogue of murders, attempted murders and other pa(...)

The murder is being linked to a long-running feud between two different factions of the Ulster Defence Association. Photograph: PA Wire
Loyalist murdered in Bangor named as Colin Horner

The man shot dead in front of his son in a supermarket car park in Bangor, Co Down on Sunday has been named locally as Colin Horner. The 35-year-old(...)

The PSNI Serious Crime Branch said the suspects had been charged with two counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm or ammunition with intent to endanger life or property.
Two charged by PSNI in connection with murder of loyalist

Two men are to appear in court on Saturday morning in Belfast charged in connection with the murder of prominent loyalist George Gilmore in Carrickfer(...)

Members of the Royal Black Preceptory in the sea side town of Bangor in Co Down: the North Down constituency voted by 52-48 per cent in favour of staying in the European Union. Photograph: Mark Marlow/Pacemaker Press
Northern Ireland’s unionist strongholds against hard border

When Britain voted for Brexit, a strange thing happened in North Down. This is a unionist-dominated area of Northern Ireland, with many of its people(...)

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