The former Hyde Park bomb suspect John Downey has decided to cancel the homecoming party that was planned for tonight because he did not want it "to be misrepresented".

The prosecution of Hyde Park bombing suspect John Downey has collapsed after a “reckless” error led to him being given a false assurance that he was not wanted by British police over the IRA attack, it can now be reported.

ITV tonight admitted that a documentary about the IRA mistakenly used a scene from a video game and claimed it was a real IRA attack.

THE widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe will be celebrating her grandson’s Holy Communion on the day the first of her husband’s killers is released from prison.

A great-grandmother who was wrongly imprisoned for nine years after two IRA bomb attacks is to receive a papal honour.

A suspected IRA member, accused of attempted murder at a British military base in Germany, will invoke his right of silence, his lawyers said at the opening of his trial today.

Dissident republican terror suspects were close to completing a bomb twice the size of the device which killed 29 people in the Omagh atrocity when gardaí swooped, a court heard today.

Police in the North have charged a 51-year-old man with murder in connection with an IRA attack that killed an RUC officer 26 years ago.