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Actor Stephen Rea at the Coroners Court inquest into the death of Dolours Price-Rea. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Dolours Price-Rea died from prescription drugs mix
  • Courts
  • April 15, 2014, 15:25

Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price-Rea died as a result of the toxic effect of a mix of prescribed sedative and anti-depressant medications, an in(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Adams willing to speak to PSNI about McConville murder

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has instructed his solicitor to contact the PSNI to say he is available to speak to them about the murder of J(...)

Jean McConville (left) pictured with three of her children shortly before she disappeared in 1972. Photograph: Pacemaker
Police case against Bell based on interview allegedly given to researchers

The police case against a veteran republican charged in connection with the notorious IRA murder of Belfast mother of 10 Jean McConville is bas(...)

Vincent “Vinny” Asaro, the reported head of the Bonanno crime family, is escorted by FBI agents out of a New York federal building yesterday.
Arrests made for ‘Goodfellas’ heist of 1978
  • US
  • January 24, 2014, 20:09

Several organised crime figures have been arrested as part of a federal investigation into a series of unsolved crimes, including the infamous 1978 Lu(...)

Philosopher Richard Kearney: “When a wound goes underground and isn’t spoken about, it’s acted out – very often through violence, through alcoholism, through depression, through suicide.”
Philosopher to address Abbey symposium on the national ‘traumas that were never named’

Sitting in the university town of Strasbourg near the French-German border, philosopher Richard Kearney is preparing for the last in a series of Europ(...)

Marty Walsh at his election-night rally following his victory in Boston. Photograph: Gretchen Ertl/The New York Times
Boston mayor with Connemara roots promises to visit next Spring

Bonfires are expected to be lit in Connemara next Spring when new mayor of Boston Marty Walsh fulfils a promise to visit the place he regards as a sec(...)

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams: denies he was a senior IRA figure at the time of the murder of Jean McConville in 1972 and that he ordered her disappearance. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Adams pressed in documentary over alleged role in McConville death

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is again the subject of claims he was involved in the killing and secret burial of Jean McConville in 1972.However, th(...)

Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi: “This is just nonsense . . . It is simply not a realistic possibility that Pope Francis will name women cardinals for the February consistory.” Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Vatican dismisses reports of women cardinals

The Holy See yesterday dismissed as “nonsense” weekend Irish media reports that Pope Francis might nominate two Irish women as cardinals. Responding t(...)

A studio portrait of Roger Casement. Casement was hanged for treason after trying to land a large shipment of German arms at Banna Strand near Tralee in 1916.
Conference on global legacy of Roger Casement

A conference of international scholars to “examine and interrogate” the global legacy of Roger Casement is taking place this week in Tralee, Co Kerry.(...)

Jean McConville with three of her children shortly before she disappeared in 1972. Photograph: Pacemaker Belfast
Value of Boston College tapes diminished by anonymous voices

There are voices and they talk about the death of Jean McConville. It may not matter. After two years of legal proceedings in the US, a set of audiota(...)

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