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Peadar Tóibín. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
McGuinness tells Sinn Fein Ardfheis that unionist ‘rejectionists’ holding back progress

Sinn Féin delegates voted by a comfortable majority at the party’s ardfheis last night against a motion allowing for freedom of conscience in votin(...)

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has apologised to the family of a garda killed by the IRA in 1980. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times.
McGuinness apologises to family of garda killed by IRA

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has apologised to the family of a garda killed by the IRA in 1980, after a plaque in his honour in the Wexford Opera Hou(...)

Prison officers carry the coffin of their colleague David Black to Molesworth Presbyterian Church in Cookstown, Co Tyrone on November 6th 2012. A woman has been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice in connection with his killing. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Wire.
Woman charged over death of prison officer

A second person has been charged in connection with the murder of a prison officer in 2012.David Black (52), a father of two, was shot dead as he trav(...)

The Rev Dr Michael Barry: “We need to get to the stage where the flag itself is not the one all-important issue. Whether I am British or Irish does not depend on what flag is flying.” Photograph: Alan Lewis/Photopress
Presbyterian moderator says politicians must find way of dealing with past

The Rev Dr Michael Barry, the next moderator to Ireland’s 240,000 Presbyterians, has said politicians must find some way of dealing with the past. Dr (...)

First Minister Peter Robinson: “very clearly . . . the Irish State was funding the guns going to the Provisional IRA”. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Wire
Leaders clash over claims Lynch government helped create IRA

First Minister Peter Robinson and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin have taken opposing positions over unionist claims that in 1969-1970 the governmen(...)

Colm Hefferon, son of Arms Trial witness Col Michael Hefferon (in photograph frame), who has called on the Government to release more documents. Photograph: Alan Betson
Call for ‘independent trawl’ of Arms Crisis files

The son of a former Army head of intelligence has called for an “independent trawl” of government files to help establish the truth behind the 1970(...)

Retired gardaí’s critique of Smithwick Tribunal report is highly selective

In their critique of Judge Smithwick’s report, the three retired gardaí state that they have “followed the same journey as the tribunal” and “walked i(...)

Court challenge unlikely to overturn tribunal findings

The challenge made to the central findings of the Smithwick Tribunal by former gardaí John O’Brien, Michael Finnegan and Michael Staunton in this news(...)

Contesting Smithwick key finding

When Judge Peter Smithwick in December published his tribunal finding that he was “satisfied there was collusion in the murders” of RUC Chief Supt Har(...)

Mr Justice Peter Smithwick: Three former senior gardaí believe the Smithwick Tribunal did not place enough emphasis on the evidence of former members of the Provisional IRA who met the tribunal and outlined how they had planned the killings without, they claimed, assistance from any Garda members. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Three former senior gardaí challenge tribunal findings

Three former senior gardaí have published a comprehensive evaluation of the Smithwick Tribunal’s conclusions, challenging its key finding of collusion(...)

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