A senior police officer branded the extremists a ‘disgrace’.

When he died just weeks before our February election the constitutional politician Seamus Mallon’s backstory and achievements were unknown, or at least underappreciated, by a swathe of our electorate.

The decision by the British government to discontinue funding the investigation of the majority of the 2,000 unsolved killings from Northern Ireland’s Troubles is shocking but hardly surprising.

The Tánaiste has criticised the British government's announcement that they would be ending certain investigations into British soldiers.

A Belfast law firm is to take a case on behalf of a family in Co. Armagh over the decision not to close schools in Northern Ireland.

A multiplicity of errors and omissions led to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) green energy scandal that brought down powersharing in Northern Ireland, not political corruption, a public inquiry has found.

Defence Forces' officers warn Irish airspace the "weak underbelly" of Europe

The politicians were asked to respond to comments from Scottish Secretary Alister Jack, who on Thursday said he favoured a tunnel rather than a bridge as a way to link the two nations.

A man in his 30s was rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the stomach and two others, aged 27 and 33, were also taken to hospital with a number of injuries.

Chris Patten said he did not object to fair prosecutions of former soldiers or others.

The explosion of a viable device left in a residential area of Co Antrim could have been “devastating”, police have said.

The chief executive of Newry and Mourne Cooperative and Enterprise Agency (NMEA), Dr Conor Patterson has warned that crops will be not be harvested and patients will go without care because of the shortage of workers under proposed new immigration rules in the UK.

Thankfully, a generation in our country has no lived memory of these atrocities — however we must remember what happened and educate ourselves

Higher costs and less availability will hit the region hardest unless extra measures are taken mitigating the effects of Brexit, the Northern Ireland Retail Consortium (NIRC), which represents larger businesses, said.

Brandon Lewis has been named new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland by Boris Johnson.

Julian Smith became the first casualty of Boris Johnson’s British Government reshuffle after being unceremoniously dumped from the Northern Ireland Office.