A man has been arrested in connection with an IRA bomb attack that killed a Catholic nun and three police officers in Northern Ireland.

A mosque in Limerick received verses from the Quran wrapped in slices of bacon in the post.

Following the Second World War and the IRA bombing campaign, the Blitz spirit lives on in new generation of Britons, writes Peter Apps.

Always good at creative writing, Ciaran parted company with school before taking his A levels. After a while he left Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh for Glasgow to attend drama school. Then, moving to London, he began to act, and has been doing so ever since.

SOMETIMES you come across a crime mystery that is so good it reads like a regular novel, and Death at Whitewater Church is one of those. 

One could not stop one’s foot tapping.

Gerry Adams is facing calls to apologise to the sister of a man who died after an IRA punishment attack.

Maíria Cahill has denounced claims that she co-operated with an IRA "kangaroo court" investigation into her abuse.

The deterioration in relations between politicians in the North was sparked by a decision to limit the flying of the Union flag over Belfast City Hall, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said.

A brave step towards peace or grudging acceptance that military defeat was inevitable – the IRA’s historic ceasefire of 1994 still sharply divides opinion in the North 20 years on.

As he hangs up his headphones for the last time, newsreader and psychoanalyst Michael Murphy looks back at four decades at RTÉ.

ON FRIDAY evenings when I arrive home, tired, often hungry and dying to see the family after a week in London, an array of my compatriots line up to greet me. Some are well known and some are not known at all.

A republican successfully sued over the Omagh bomb has been remanded in custody charged with murdering the 29 victims of the Real IRA outrage.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has asked his lawyer to contact police to establish if detectives want to speak to him about the murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville.

The police case against a veteran republican charged in connection with the notorious IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at a US college, a court has heard.

A loyalist who killed three men during a gun and grenade attack at an IRA funeral in West Belfast must serve out the remainder of of his minimum 30-year jail sentence, it was disclosed.

A judge today praised two uniformed and unarmed gardaí who stopped 10 men in paramilitary gear in Balbriggan as "quite heroic" and said they "deserved much praise" for their action.

Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company during the Falklands crisis, state papers have revealed.

The North’s First Minister has tonight called on the Irish Government to apologise for its role in the emergence of the IRA in the 1970s.

I served in An Forsa Cosanta Aitiuil for 14 years from the early 1950s to the mid-60s.

A former Garda officer alleged to have been suspicious that three of his colleagues colluded with the IRA has claimed he cannot recall rumours that they were linked to subversives.

A grandson of Independent Dublin city councillor and former Sinn Féin member Christy Burke who is charged with IRA membership and firearms offences was freed on bail by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Former US president Bill Clinton has hailed the political significance of next week’s meeting between the Queen of England and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

A former Taoiseach ordered Garda chiefs not to co-operate with an investigation into an IRA attack which killed 18 British soldiers in 1979, it has been alleged at a tribunal.

The parents of a schoolboy killed when he triggered an IRA bomb in Derry in 1973 believe Martin McGuinness knows who was involved.

Police documents about an IRA bombing that killed 12 people at a hotel in the North have disappeared, victims’ relatives claimed today.

ITV has been strongly criticised by the British TV watchdog and found in breach of broadcasting rules for mistakenly claiming that a scene from a video game was footage of an IRA attack.

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s secret attempts to end the IRA hunger strikes are revealed in official documents made public for the first time today.

Bullets fired in a terrorist gun attack that killed two British soldiers were of a make and date similar to those used in Provisional IRA shootings, a court has heard today.

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

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.

Martin McGuinness has insisted that voters will not focus on his IRA past in the Irish presidential contest and will instead judge him on his record as a peacemaker.

A decision to charge Old Bailey bomber Marian Price in connection with the murder of two British soldiers is an abuse of legal process, her lawyer claimed today.

A priest suspected of involvement in the Claudy bombing met a former deputy chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, it was revealed today.

Maze prison escapee Brendan “Bik” McFarlane was today awarded €15,000 over his prosecution for the kidnap of supermarket boss Don Tidey.

The European Court of Human Rights is to rule today whether there was undue delay in prosecuting Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane for the kidnapping of supermarket executive Don Tidey.

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation today after it emerged the police, British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

Martin McGuinness accused the Ulster Unionists today of opposing a deal to devolve policing powers to Northern Ireland for cynical party political reasons, as a crunch debate on the transfer began at Stormont.

Colm Murphy walked free from the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today after he was cleared of a conspiracy charge in relation to the 1998 Omagh bomb which killed 29 people and injured more than 300.

Security forces have foiled a bid to kill police officers in the North, it was revealed today.

A HUSH descended over a Northern Ireland beauty spot yesterday as families and ex-servicemen marked the 30th anniversary of an IRA double bombing which claimed the lives of 18 soldiers and a civilian.

Northern Ireland MP William McCrea has been warned of a death threat from the Real IRA, it was revealed today.

Two former security service members have been warned of an aborted murder bid against them by dissident republicans, it was revealed today.

The Real IRA gun attack which killed two British soldiers outside a barracks in the North was captured on CCTV, police said today.