The so-called New IRA which admitted killing journalist and activist Lyra McKee during a night of riots in Derry’s Creggan estate may have announced its formation in July 2012, but its origins stretch back five years earlier, writes Dieter Reinisch

Mairia Cahill has promised to meet with rape victim support groups in one of her first acts as a senator.

The sister of murder victim Robert McCartney has called on Labour to reflect on the decision to nominate Máiría Cahill to a vacant Seanad position

Maíria Cahill has claimed she is now homeless and in debt as a result of going public about her claim that she was raped by an IRA member as a teenager and subjected to an IRA "kangaroo court".

The annual riots in Belfast show the normalisation of abnormality, say Stephen Rainey and Jason Walsh

GERRY Adams dismissed republican dissidents as “anti-peace” activists but offered to mediate with them to try and halt the upsurge of violence in the North.

A group representing several dissident republican outfits has denied that these organisations were responsible for attacks on the homes of Sinn Fein members or on the party's offices in Belfast and Derry.