Pat Finucane

The British government needs to “step up” over its obligations to hold an inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. (...)

The North’s First Minister has written to the Taoiseach requesting a “fresh examination” into allegations of collusion between the Irish state and the(...)

A while ago, I was writing something about the Troubles. I wanted to check a detail in that great and terrible litany of death, Lost Lives, which was (...)

Every unionist party has welcomed the decision not to hold a full public inquiry into the 1989 murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane. The reason t(...)

The strategy of avoiding dealing with unsolved Troubles killings – euphemised as ‘legacy’ – fuels anger rather than confronts basic divisions. The lat(...)

Statements from the North’s Police Ombudsman and the PSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne appear to challenge the British government’s explanation for why(...)

There has been an effort “consistently to undermine any progress to get to the truth” of the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989, the Tao(...)

The Finucane family has been here before. In 2001 the UK government agreed that a “judge of international standing” would be appointed to carry out a (...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has called on the British government to adhere to the agreement it made in 2001 to hold a public inquiry into the murder of B(...)

Four of the North’s six largest political parties have written a joint letter to the British government demanding a public inquiry into the murder of (...)