A group addressing the legacy of the Troubles in the North has made a direct public appeal today for the IRA to co-operate with its work.

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin says the Government will be taking its time before responding to this week's report on how to address the legacy of the Troubles in the North.

THE indignant rant of Pierce Martin (Letters, January 12) in response to my letter of January 5 (‘Intellectual giant who turned into a political pygmy’) clearly shows that even three generations into partition, and all the horrors that have flowed from that seismic event, there are still some among us who resent the removal of British colonialism from Ireland.

The Stormont Executive has announced details of a £36m (€70m) strategy to address the needs of victims of the Troubles in the North.

A truth commission to examine the bloody legacy of the Troubles in the North must not follow South Africa’s ’confrontational’ model, victims’ groups said today.

Ireland has been named as the world's friendliest country in a new list of top travel destinations from Lonely Planet.

A British parliamentary committee has recommended that victims of the Troubles in the North during the late 1960s and 1970s be offered improved compensation.

The IRA has issued a statement apologising to families for suffering caused by the murder and secret burial of several suspected British army informers during the Troubles in the North.

Dessie O'Hare, one of the most notorious republican paramilitaries to emerge from the Troubles in the North, has declared that his war is over and that the conditions for armed struggle with Britain no longer exist.