Privacy is the sexy topic of the day. Except when it comes to the relatives of people with disabilities associated with aging, writes Terry Prone

BRITAIN’S House of Commons meets this week to debate the bill which will — as from March 2019 — take the country out of the European Union. 

The centenary of the birth of Jack Lynch is clearly an event worth marking, not least because he embodied the centrist consensual approach to politics and economic management which on the whole has served the country pretty well.

The prime minister has helped Labour achieve a comeback which would force Lazarus to give a standing ovation, writes Allan Prosser.

Martin McGuinness had a commanding role in IRA violence but his contribution to peace will be long remembered, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

‘You don’t win a strike,’ Paddy Cardiff used to say. ‘When it’s over, you try to recover from it’, writes, Fergus Finlay.

When British prime ministers assume office, they usually deliver high-sounding speeches. Margaret Thatcher famously quoted from St Francis of Assisi back in May 1979.

At least seven police forces are carrying out investigations linked to child sex claims against the late Edward Heath.

At least four UK police forces are investigating sex abuse allegations linked to Edward Heath, it has been revealed.

Child sex allegations involving Sir Edward Heath are at the centre of a police corruption investigation.

Company law was not designed to enable people to walk away from their obligations to

 

The pollsters could be wrong about Scotland’s referendum, says Andrew Osborn

IN Derry, Jan 30, 1972, on what became known as Bloody Sunday, 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army.

A POLICE investigation into a Catholic priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing was stopped after senior officers conspired with the government and Church to protect him, a shock report has revealed.

A police investigation into a Catholic priest suspected over the 1972 Claudy bomb outrage was stopped after senior officers conspired with the British government and Catholic Church to protect him, a shock new report revealed today.

ON January 30, 1972, 14 civilians were shot dead in Derry by soldiers from the First Parachute Battalion, under the command of Lt Col Derek Wilford. He was exonerated by the now discredited Widgery tribunal and six months later he was awarded the OBE Queen Elizabeth, probably on the advice of British prime minister Edward Heath.

British soldiers made Iraqi prisoners scream in an "orchestrated choir" and forced one to dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry heard today.

The decision to delay publication of the Bloody Sunday report in the North is deeply disappointing, a committee of MPs said today.

ALAN DUKES recently proposed a reading list for Gay Byrne to help ‘educate’ him about the EU.

THINKING of the behaviour of the Cork train drivers this week brought Rudyard Kipling to mind. It was he who first coined the term “power without responsibility”.

WE should call our politicians to account for their deliberate attempts to deceive us about the true nature of the Lisbon treaty and their contrivance to manipulate the information we receive so as to influence us without our knowledge.

Mugabe has gradually made the impossible possible: restoring Ian Smith’s historical reputation.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern was articulate in calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon.

Lord Fitt, one of Northern Ireland’s fiercest critics of the IRA and the first leader of the SDLP, died today.

HAVING debased ourselves as an independent nation by erecting a monument to Francis Drake in Carrigaline, Co Cork, and restoring the monument to Queen Victoria in Dun Laoghaire, should we not now go the whole hog to please our former colonial masters?

Unionists and nationalists have said former British Prime Minister Edward Heath will not be remembered fondly by the people of Northern Ireland.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has paid tribute to former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who died last night at the age of 89.

Edward Heath, the former Prime Minister who took Britain into Europe, has died, aged 89.

EDWARD HEATH, the British Prime Minister who took Britain into Europe, died last night. He was 89.

Sir Edward Heath died tonight, a spokesman for Britain's former Conservative Prime Minister announced.

THE Bloody Sunday inquiry was urged yesterday to determine the extent of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath’s responsibility for the deaths of the 13 people shot dead by troops at the civil rights march in Derry over 30 years ago.

AS his US presidency unravelled, Richard Nixon was too “loaded” to take an urgent call during the Arab-Israeli war from British Prime Minister Edward Heath, according to transcripts of Dr Henry Kissinger’s phone calls.

Geoff Meade

The Charlemagne Prize for European achievement, usually awarded to a single person, is to be awarded twice in 2004.

BRITISH spy chiefs secretly warned that the United States would be prepared to invade Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to seize their oilfields following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, it was disclosed yesterday.

A soldier was told permission was sought from the British Prime Minister to enter the IRA-controlled no-go areas of Derry on Bloody Sunday, he claimed today.

A lawyer acting for the former British Prime Minister Edward Heath says claims made against him by lawyers acting for the families of the Bloody Sunday dead are ``specious nonsense''.

The former British Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, has rejected suggestions he knew unarmed people could be killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today insisted he was not responsible for the deaths of 13 civil rights protesters on Bloody Sunday nearly 31 years ago.

Those responsible for soldiers who killed civilians in Derry on Bloody Sunday must not be allowed by the Saville Inquiry to cover up their role in events, a senior member of the SDLP claimed today.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today denied that he tried to browbeat the chairman of the original Bloody Sunday Inquiry into exonerating the British soldiers who carried out the killings.

A lawyer representing families of the Bloody Sunday victims has complained to the chairman of the Saville Inquiry about the abusive language used by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath. F

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath has denied that he gave the British army the go-ahead to use lethal force in the North in the 1970s.

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today rejected suggestions that the British government planned the events of Bloody Sunday when paratroopers shot dead 13 men as "absurd".

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is due to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday led tributes to the former Labour Home Secretary and Chancellor Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, who died suddenly at the age of 82.

The British government was seriously considering repartitioning the North in 1972 to create a Protestant state.

The father of a nine-year-old girl killed in the Claudy bombing today called on former Prime Minister Edward Heath and his Defence Secretary Lord Carrington to say what they knew about the atrocity.