Morrissey has been announced as headliner of this year's Hop Farm Festival in the UK.

IF it is Jennifer Sleeman’s intention to advance the cause of women through her call for a boycott of mass tomorrow, she should do so, informed by the teaching of the Catholic Church on the dignity of women.

Sunday’s big meeting at Leopardstown, featuring the Pierse Hurdle, seems certain to go ahead thanks to milder weather that has reached Ireland.

THE killers of Belfast father-of-two Robert McCartney should do the patriotic and honourable thing by handing themselves in, his family told a rally yesterday.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal is to reconvene later this month to hear evidence from a man known as Witness X, it emerged today.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will resume in Derry today to hear the closing speech by counsel to the inquiry Christopher Clarke QC.

The leader of the Official IRA on Bloody Sunday has pulled out of giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry because of illness.

A lawyer representing the family of one of the Bloody Sunday victims has described the British soldiers involved in the incident as a “death squad”.

A former member of the Provisional IRA has told the Saville Inquiry how he confronted an Official IRA gunman who opened fire on British soldiers after they had shot Catholic civilians on Bloody Sunday almost 32 years ago.

A man who claimed Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness distributed nail bombs on “Bloody Sunday” is due to take the stand today at the hearing into the shootings.

Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde today denied claiming the Bloody Sunday tribunal was a waste of money.

The British army’s wall of snipers on Bloody Sunday did not spot a single gunman during the main shootings, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

A former British soldier whose evidence is central to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has told the tribunal that his personal diary notes of the events of January 30, 1972, were stolen by French transvestites.

John Hume has told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that it should concentrate on whether the then Unionist-dominated Stormont Government was in charge of the British Army on the day 14 people were shot dead.

A leading barrister today disputed reports that lawyers working on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry had already been paid €50.7m.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal today ruled that intelligence material directly relating to the activities of civilian witnesses on the day of the shootings should be admitted to the inquiry.

A crisis is looming in the Bloody Sunday tribunal after lawyers for the soldiers who opened fire demanded to see intelligence reports on civilian witnesses.