Listening to Morning Ireland (August 8), I couldn’t help but think: is it the role of an RTÉ journalist to abruptly interrupt the leader of the SDLP and tell (note: not ask) him that “the PSNI say that the Republican Movement are totally committed to peace” when he was trying to provide local knowledge that it is not?

The first TD to represent the Workers’ Party in the Dáil was buried today.

THE family of murdered Belfast father of two Robert McCartney are considering a civil action against his killers similar to the case against people accused of the Omagh bomb.

Ian Paisley’s Democrat Unionists will engage with Sinn Fein sooner or later, a senior republican claimed today.