IRA
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Sordid murder of hurling brothers still resonates in south Galway
- Hurling
- November 28, 2020, 06:00
“Sometimes I’ve had dreams about the Loughnane brothers,” says Martina Blackwell, standing in the gentle glow of the turf fire in the stone-cut Loughn(...)

Cad iad na Tuarascálacha Gníomhaíochta Briogáide?
- Heritage
- October 15, 2019, 00:00
Ar 21 Eanáir, 1919, tionóladh an chéad Dáil Éireann i mBaile Átha Cliath. Ní raibh na teachtaí ar fad i láthair: bhí an chuid ba mhó d’ionadaithe tofa(...)

Miriam Lord: Mary Lou McDonald takes ‘sitting TD’ a little too far
- Politics
- November 20, 2018
The real action in the chamber happened before the official proceedings began. And people were still talking about it long after Leaders’ Questions w(...)

Undercover FBI agent tipped off gardaí about Semtex plot
- Courts
- July 4, 2018, 16:41
Gardaí arrested three men on suspicion of IRA membership after a tip-off from an undercover FBI agent, the Special Criminal Court has heard. The und(...)

Man jailed after bringing explosives onto Bus Éireann bus
- Crime & Law
- February 6, 2017, 16:49
A man who was arrested while trying to transport 1.6kg of high-grade explosives and three detonators on the Bus Éireann bus from Dublin to Derry has b(...)

Families of Birmingham bombing victims denied inquest fund
- UK
- September 26, 2016, 15:12
The British government has rejected a call from families bereaved by the Birmingham pub bombings for a special funding model to help them pay their le(...)

Martina Anderson: ‘Republicans planning for reunification’
- Irish News
- April 23, 2016, 17:53
Sinn Féin MEP and former IRA prisoner Martina Anderson has told the party ardfheis in Dublin that republicans fought an “incredible war against the Br(...)

Independent review of Maíria Cahill case handling complete
- Irish News
- May 7, 2015, 14:54
An independent review into how the North’s Public Prosecution Service dealt with three cases of alleged sexual abuse by an IRA man against Maíria Cahi(...)

Birmingham bombings: city still struggling to cope 40 years on
- UK
- November 21, 2014, 01:00
Forty years on Alan Hill remembers driving a fire engine through a tunnel in Birmingham as a garbled message came through on the radio that a bomb had(...)

Women at war: the jobs they did
- Politics
- October 3, 2014
Margaret Pendy Awarded a pension for one and three-quarter years’ service from April 1st, 1919, to July 11th, 1921, Margaret Pendy was typical of the (...)