Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has launched a legal bid to overturn two historical convictions for attempting to escape from prison.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has launched a legal bid to overturn two historical convictions for attempting to escape from prison in the North.

A former IRA hunger striker is making a name for himself as a playwright, writes Colette Sheridan

The Cork-born director of the prestigious event helps Esther McCarthy select some highlights

The filming of a new movie documenting the 1983 prison breakout of IRA prisoners from the North’s Maze Prison got under way at the recently decommissioned Cork prison yesterday.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

Just before dawn on a Thursday in early March 2006, several hundred Gardaí and soldiers swarmed Thomas "Slab" Murphy's border farm.

The daughter of a Conservative politician murdered in the Brighton bombing 30 years ago has said she regards her father’s killer as an unlikely friend.

Voters in Scotland will go to the polls tomorrow to decide whether Scotland goes it alone or stays as part of the United Kingdom.

The Northern peace process is under its greatest threat since the landmark 1998 Good Friday Agreement negotiations, Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams has warned.

Diplomats fretted about allowing Iran to open an embassy in Dublin because of its backing for the IRA as well as Fianna Fáil links with high-profile personalities in Iraq, State files have revealed.

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Another €60,000 has been discovered stashed in the former home of one-time IRA hunger striker-turned-property tycoon.

In what can best be described as an act of political cowardice, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson has performed an astonishing volte-face by withdrawing support for a peace-and-reconciliation centre at the former Maze prison, outside Belfast.

Prison officers have called for a former jail which held some of the North's most notorious paramilitaries to be bulldozed after proposals to build a peace centre there stalled.

The Northern Ireland Office report, released by the UK National Archives, details how the escape from the Maze Prison H-Block unfolded, and the UK Government’s determination that the IRA should not be able to gain from the episode.

Anthony Downey, 61, from Co Donegal, is to be charged over the IRA’s Hyde Park bombing in London which killed eight soldiers on July 20, 1982, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service said today.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams reacted to the announcement of Margaret Thatcher’s death with a scathing assessment of herpolitical legacy in Ireland and elsewhere.

A former IRA leader in the Maze prison in the North was remanded in custody yesterday on charges linked to a police investigation into a murder outside a Belfast bar.

A former IRA leader in the Maze prison in the North was remanded into custody today on charges linked to a police investigation into a murder outside a Belfast bar.

Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson has branded the killers of a long-serving prison officer in the North today "flat-earth fanatics living in the dark ages".

A long-serving prison officer was murdered in a motorway ambush by dissident republicans in Northern Ireland today.

A former IRA hunger striker-turned-property tycoon has avoided going back behind bars after successfully overturning a contempt of court judgment.

Ireland's top judges will rule today if a former Sinn Féin hunger striker-turned-property tycoon should go back behind bars for breaking court orders.

Eight undercover British soldiers were at the scene of a high-profile killing carried out by loyalist paramilitaries in the North, a dramatic new report has revealed.

THE Priory Hall scandal is not the first time property developer Thomas McFeely has been before the courts in recent years.

The British government must be fully transparent if it decides to hold a public inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, his son has said.

The funeral will take place today of David Wright, father of murdered loyalist terrorist Billy Wright.

The story of the 2011 Assembly election has repeated the same plot-line that has been played out for the last 10 years in the North.

Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to al Qaeda

ULSTER GAA scored a windfall victory yesterday with news they will receive £61.4million (€71,458,841) in public funding toward the reconstruction of Casement Park.

THE H Block protest began in 1976 when the British decided to phase out special category status, which accorded virtual prisoner of war status to Republican prisoners.

The publication of two multimillion-pound public inquiries into controversial killings during the Troubles has been hit by delays.

The Long Road Home

Sinn Féin's finance spokesman Arthur Morgan tonight confirmed he would not stand in the next general election.

THE exit of Jim McDaid was in keeping with his career, his public persona and his political path. It left a bitter taste.

The official inquiry into the murder of Loyalist terrorist Billy Wright in the Maze Prison found that there was no “state collusion” in his killing, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today.

The official inquiry into the murder of Loyalist prisoner Billy Wright in Maze Prison found there was no "state collusion'' in his killing, Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson has told the UK's House of Commons today.

Jail chiefs braced themselves today for a major report of a £30m (€367m) UK government investigation into the 1997 murder inside the Maze Prison of loyalist Billy Wright, one of the North's most feared assassins.

Maze prison escapee Brendan “Bik” McFarlane was today awarded €15,000 over his prosecution for the kidnap of supermarket boss Don Tidey.

The European Court of Human Rights is to rule today whether there was undue delay in prosecuting Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane for the kidnapping of supermarket executive Don Tidey.

Long-awaited plans for a controversial “Troubles museum” have been agreed in a new blueprint for redeveloping the North’s former top security Maze prison, it emerged today.

Old Bailey bomber Marian Price was arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in the North.

The decision today of republican paramilitary group the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) to end violence proves the North is leaving the horrors of its past behind, it was claimed.

The Government had a mole inside the Maze Prison during the IRA hunger strike of 1981, former Taoiseach Dr Garret FitzGerald revealed today.

A Belfast man who escaped from the top-security Maze Prison in the North 26 years ago is expected to be deported from the US to the Republic later this week.

New IFA chief executive Patrick Nelson believes there is good cause for optimism in Northern Ireland.