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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(...)

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(...)

File image of the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines, Belgium. File photograph: Aidan Crawley
Tribute paid to Glen Barr for his work on peace park

Glenn Barr’s work on the Island of Ireland Peace Park at Messines in Belgium was a “gamechanger in the maturing of relationships” between Britain and (...)

Portrait of Damien McNally by Colin Davidson: McNally says sitting for the portrait as part of the Silent Testimony series of paintings of people who suffered loss in the Troubles was therapeutic
Thousands ‘silently enduring anxiety and stress’ because of Troubles

In June 1976 26-year-old Paul McNally, a Catholic, walked out of the bookies at the Ardoyne shops in north Belfast. He was with a friend. As they were(...)

Alliance leader Naomi Long and DUP Deputy leader Nigel Dodds at UTV Studios on Monday for the Westminster Election Debate. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Alliance accuses loyalist umbrella group of issuing ‘sinister’ statement

A group which has the support of three loyalist paramilitary organisations has urged unionists not to vote for Alliance candidates in Thursday’s Westm(...)

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(...)

Northern Ireland Minister for Justice Claire Sugden said there had been successes against gangs which comprise groups such the Ulster Volunteer Force (East Belfast mural above), the Ulster Defence Association, republican dissident groups and some eastern European gangs. File photograph: Getty Images
Almost 140 crime gangs in North, says Minister for Justice

Close to 140 organised crime gangs, many of them with paramilitary connections, are now operating in Northern Ireland, according to the PSNI and North(...)

PSNI officers remove items following searches in Larne, Co Antrim, yesterday, after the arrest of a Royal Marine for questioning in connection with two major dissident republican arms finds. Photgraph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Royal Marine arrest linked with dissident republican arms finds

A 30-year-old British soldier has been arrested in Somerset, England in connection with dissident republican arms finds in Larne, Co Antrim, police h(...)

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