The North should hold a referendum on joining the Republic as early as 2016, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said.

BEING saddled with the slogan “West Brits Out” was not the best start to Martin McGuinness’s presidential push.

HURLER of the Year Lar Corbett said that Queen Elizabeth had displayed a keen interest in the sport when she met a group of players at Croke Park yesterday.

The Queen has arrived at Croke Park in Dublin, the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1920.

THE much-anticipated and hyped state visit to the Republic of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth II, due to take place before the end of President McAleese’s term of office in 2011, drew a curious comment from the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micháel Martin recently.

THERE are some people in Ireland who will never be happy with the idea that we should extend an invitation to Queen Elizabeth — or any other British monarch — to visit our country.

THE streets of Dublin rang out last night to demands that the Israeli ambassador be expelled and trade sanctions be imposed against the mideast state as about 2,000 people marched through the capital to protest against yesterday’s aid flotilla attack.

A man has been arrested after shots were fired at a former Official IRA leader's funeral.

A TICKET for the Gaelic football match at Croke Park which ended in the notorious Bloody Sunday massacre by British troops reached more than double its expected value at auction yesterday.

WHILE a lot has gone under Dublin’s O’Connell bridge, the local council are far more interested in what has recently been placed on top.

IT has taken a six-year inquiry to elicit the facts behind Derry’s Bloody Sunday massacre, but the families of 13 people gunned down by British soldiers will derive solace from the claim that their names will finally be vindicated.

A witness at the Bloody Sunday tribunal in Derry broke down this morning after revealing how he pretended to be dead to avoid being murdered by British soldiers.

A taxi driver has told the Bloody Sunday Tribunal in Derry that British soldiers stole his takings, wedding ring and watch during the arrest operation that led to the deaths of 13 unarmed civilians in January 1972.

Martin McGuinness today met with lawyers in advance of his testimony to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

Sein Fein says doubts cast by a former MI5 officer on claims that Martin McGuinness fired a shot before the Bloody Sunday massacre prove that the allegations are bogus.