WHEN eight British soldiers were arrested by the gardaí in the middle of the night in May 1976, it was one of the most embarrassing diplomatic incidents of the Troubles.

The Sinn Féin president has said her phone call with Breege Quinn, mother of murder victim Paul Quinn, went “very well”.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says any suggestion that Conor Murphy is holding back information on the murder of Paul Quinn is deeply wrong.

Nobody from Sinn Féin has contacted Paul Quinn’s family, according to the murdered 21-year-old’s mother.

The mother of an IRA murder victim has demanded that Sinn Féin sack one of its Stormont ministers for accusing her son of being a criminal.

Seamus Mallon, who will be buried in his beloved Markethill in South Armagh today, may not quite be numbered in that trinity of the greatest Irishmen of modern times.

They enjoyed a long, fruitful if occasionally fraught relationship. One concentrated on securing international support for their cause while the other — Mallon — concentrated on Belfast and Lon don, Dublin too.

Oisin McConville has admitted he’ll ‘bail out’ of Crossmaglen with his young family if Brexit negotiations go badly and a hard border is reinstated on the island.

He called for a cross border agency to tackle the gang bosses, who, he said, were turning the border county into a “no go area” for business and investors.

A suspected attacker understood to have accidentally shot himself as he pursued his alleged victim has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

A 60-year-old man has been charged with the 1994 murder of Francis Damien Kerr in Newry and membership of a proscribed organisation, the Police Service of Northern Ireland has said.

Exactly two years today, Rian O’Neill of Crossmaglen, south Armagh, flew across the world to one of the oldest sporting institutions in the world — the North Melbourne Australian Rules club — to see how he might shape up as a prospective player.

The family of a man shot dead in 1976 say they have been failed by the Irish Government and the Gardaí.

As he prepares to swear allegiance to the Irish State and take over as Garda commissioner, are there conflicts of interest surrounding former PSNI deputy chief Drew Harris, asks Security Correspondent, Cormac O’Keeffe

Two sex offenders wanted by police for a range of offences, and who were hiding out in Donegal last week, have been arrested in the North.

The Rumble in the Jungle has been described as “arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century”.

A fresh search for a man abducted and killed by the IRA in 1972 is to be launched.

A dissident republican group behind dozens of gun and bomb attacks on security forces in Northern Ireland has declared a ceasefire.

A Sinn Féin politician has apologised for posting a video showing him with a Kingsmill-branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre.

It is time that the Great Leader acted decisively on this generational change he speaks about and stands down to make way for Mary Lou, writes Alison O’Connor

A garda could give evidence on what the force knows about the Kingsmill shooting via a court in the Republic of Ireland, the foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney said.

A security analyst believes the Defence Forces will find it difficult to manage and police a ‘hard’ border post-Brexit.

IRA informer turned author Sean O'Callaghan has died aged 63, a close friend has said.

Relatives of Omagh bomb victims are to sue Northern Ireland's police chief for investigative failings they believe let the killers escape justice.

It was only when I started working in Armagh city in 2000 that I experienced how intense the rivalry was with Tyrone, writes Oisin McConville.

A man is suing Facebook claiming he was defamed in a post calling him "Dundalk's biggest drug dealer".

The wife of one of the pilots killed in the Rescue 116 helicopter crash off the coast of Co Mayo last March has issued an open letter thanking the public for their support.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the news from the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) today.

The Government has insisted it will not stymie efforts to find closure for Kingsmill massacre victims.

New legislation could be passed to direct Gardaí to appear before the Kingsmill inquest into an IRA massacre, a lawyer has said.

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Requests for more information about the Kingsmill massacre in South Armagh have fallen on deaf ears in the Republic, a lawyer alleged.

Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists are on course to reinforce their grip on power at Stormont, with the republican party closing the gap on their unionist rivals.

A prosecutorial decision on a man whose palm print was allegedly found on a getaway vehicle used in the Kingsmill massacre is set to be announced within two weeks, a coroner has been told.

Six police officers have been injured in two cross-border vehicle ramming incidents in south Armagh

It was officially just a touch of bronchitis, but given the context of recent days, one could be forgiven for viewing it as a sign of things to come.

Lawyers for the families of those killed in the 1976 Kingsmill massacre have appealed for top secret intelligence material to be released to an inquest.

A man arrested on suspicion of the sectarian murders of 10 Protestant workmen in Northern Ireland has been released pending a report to prosecutors.

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating the sectarian murder of ten Protestant workmen in the North 40 years ago.

After folk singer Niamh O’Neill finished a gig of a different nature in Limerick last night, she remarked: “The buzz was great, but to be honest I feel much more comfortable with a guitar in my hand.”

Police in the North say a potential suspect in the murder of 10 people there has been identified 40 years after the attack.

An inquest into the sectarian murder of 10 Protestant workmen by the IRA in the North 40 years ago will begin today.

Are Michael Daragh McAuley or Barry Moran the most important people in Castlebar and Ballyboden this week?

A former GAA team doctor facing allegations relating to a conviction concerning the forging of an elderly publican’s will was yesterday found guilty of professional misconduct at a disciplinary inquiry at the Medical Council in Dublin.