Amnesty Ireland will present a detailed report on how to deal with past injustices in the North to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement later.

IMAGINE. We’ll spend €1.5bn on food, drink and presents this Christmas — more than any other EU country.

SATURDAY

INTEGRATION Minister Mary White is to meet the Nigerian ambassador and review the laws on racism in the wake of the death of an African schoolboy.

Derry City know that they have to beat Sligo Rovers at the Brandywell tonight if they are to have a chance of finishing third in the Premier Division, kick-off 7.45pm.

The Good Friday Agreement was a watershed in the history of Ireland but the scourge of sectarianism still exists in the North, Bertie Ahern said today.

Belfast put on its new inclusive face today as St Patrick’s Day was celebrated by thousands from all backgrounds.

The Taoiseach has accepted an invitation to attend an event in Belfast to mark the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.

Ireland winger Shane Horgan has been named in the Leinster squad for Friday’s Magners League clash with Connacht.

Knife killings in Northern Ireland doubled since the 1998 peace deal was signed, it emerged today.

Peter Hain, the Northern Secretary, yesterday threatened to cancel the next Stormont elections if unionist and republican politicians do not form a power-sharing government in the coming year.

THE Government yesterday announced another €15 million in funding for a new visitor centre at the Battle of the Boyne site.

PUBLIC representatives have been urged to be moderate, accurate and careful in their comments in the run-up to the citizenship referendum.

Ian Paisley’s hardline Democratic Unionists tonight surged to the top of the Northern Ireland’s election poll to threaten the future of the Good Friday Agreement.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan was today launching a fresh party offensive to thwart anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists winning crucial Assembly election seats.

PROTAGONISTS in the Northern Ireland peace process have often quoted the poet Seamus Heaney’s desire that some day hope and history might rhyme.

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has insisted that a majority of unionists still support the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was urged yesterday to call a special summit with his British counterpart Tony Blair and demand that Northern Ireland Assembly elections be held this autumn.

The Ulster Unionist Party today faced fresh demands to cut its ties with the protestant Orange Order.

Nationalists must face up to the reality that the Good Friday Agreement is doomed to failure, a hardline unionist said tonight.

SHOOTINGS and beatings of children by paramilitary organisations in the North have increased almost fivefold since the Good Friday Agreement supposedly put the peace process on a firm footing.

In a strong appeal to the republican movement yesterday, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern insisted that a core element of the Good Friday Agreement is the transition to peaceful and democratic means. He emphasised that people are entitled to know the intentions of their prospective partners in the process.

Some of the world’s top names in news-gathering will be in Dublin later this month for an international conference.

David Trimble was today holding talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as the clock ticked down on Northern Ireland’s latest bid to share power.

Sectarian violence on the streets of Belfast must be addressed by the British and Irish governments and parties who support the Good Friday Agreement, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said today.

Northern Ireland’s politicians are today holding round table talks aimed at bolstering the crisis-hit Good Friday Agreement.

Six days of intense negotiations aimed at rescuing the Good Friday Agreement ended today without a deal on decommissioning IRA arms.

One of David Trimble’s fiercest Good Friday Agreement opponents was today among the first MPs to be elected in Northern Ireland.

Northern Secretary John Reid has issued an appeal to the people of the North to vote for parties who support the Good Friday Agreement in the upcoming British general election.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams may be challenged in his West Belfast stronghold at the British general election by a dissident republican prisoner.