A review of how the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) handled three cases linked to an alleged rape and IRA cover-up will be published after the British General Election.

Kenny does not believe Sinn Féin leader and says he would have been well aware of alleged rapes

Sinn Féin conducted a secret 2006 investigation into "40 different cases of sexual and physical abuse" by the Provisional IRA, and sent a memo to party media handlers "should the report ever be leaked," it has been claimed.

A ‘Ferns-style’ commission of inquiry should be set up to investigate the extent of the Sinn Féin abuse allegations, after it was claimed the party is aware of more than 100 attacks that were covered up by the provisional IRA.

Abuse victim Mairia Cahill has passed on the names of around 35 alleged abusers to the gardaí and PSNI.

DURING the turbulent election campaign of 2011 I wrote about the possibility of Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness being elected as the President of Ireland, writes Alison O’Connor

I am a survivor of child sex abuse and I am deeply upset with the public conversation about abuse in the Republican community.

IRA abuse victim Paudie McGahon has described former Sinn Féin TD Arthur Morgan’s 2009 letter advising him to go to the gardaí with his complaint as “a red herring” and “a diversion”.

The IRA man who raped Paudie McGahon comes from a top Belfast Republican family which has connections with Sinn Féin, according to fellow abuse victim Mairia Cahill.

Special Correspondent Michael Clifford looks at the possible fallout for Sinn Féin following

WHENEVER it suits Sinn Féin, the party draws a line in the sand, making a fine distinction between its role as the self- described biggest political party on this island and its attitude to and handling of historic but still live allegations involving crimes of rape and sexual abuse of young people by members of the republican movement.

The North's Justice Minister has ruled out any cross-border inquiry into IRA sex abuse allegations until other ongoing investigations are completed.

Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has confirmed that a cross border investigation into alleged abuse by IRA members is under consideration.

A Stormont minister who has acknowledged she did not report allegations an IRA man abused a teenage girl has faced Assembly calls to resign.

Enda Kenny has called on Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams to tell authorities where sex abusers or rapists, allegedly moved from the North by the IRA, are living.

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

The four people that Maíria Cahill accused of subjecting her to a "kangaroo court" over her claims that she was raped by a IRA member have refused to meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has written to Gerry Adams seeking clarification on the people the Sinn Féin leader asked him to meet regarding rape victim Mairia Cahill’s claims of an internal IRA investigation into her abuse.

Republicans have tried denial, obfuscation, and political attack since Maíria Cahill’s story became public, writes Micheál Martin

A Sinn Féin TD has today revealed that Sinn Féin has procedures in place since the early 1990s in relation to child protection.

Sinn Féin councillor Eoin Ó Broin has said that if there is anything else the party can do in relation to Mairia Cahill, they need to do it.

The two legal experts who will review the case involving alleged rape victim Maíria Cahill have been named by the North’s Director of Public Prosecutions.

With respect to Dolan O’Hagan (‘Political point scoring does a disservice to Máiria Cahill’, October 22) nobody doubts what Derry was like in the 1980s but most of the destruction of the city and its social order was wrought by the Provos.

Three cases linked to alleged rape of a Belfast woman and subsequent IRA cover-up are to be reviewed by a top human rights lawyer, the Public Prosecution Service has said.

Mairia Cahill says Gerry Adams needs to clarify if alleged sex abusers were moved out of the North's jurisdiction by the Republican movement.

I THINK there might be more merit in supporting Maíria Cahill than in attacking Gerry Adams. I’ve two reasons for saying that, and I realise that people who read that sentence might see it as the beginning of an apologia for Adams or Sinn Féin. I don’t mean it that way, and hope to make that clear.

Maíria Cahill has claimed she is now homeless and in debt as a result of going public about her claim that she was raped by an IRA member as a teenager and subjected to an IRA "kangaroo court".

Crumbling loyalties could lead to breakthroughs in many of the missing women cases, according to a senior garda who investigated them.

Sinn Féin’s rising support appears to have been halted following period of controversy over its handling of allegations by Belfast woman Maíria Cahill, who claims she was raped and subjected to a "kangaroo court" inquiry by the IRA.

Fear of going to the police with complaints about sexual abuse or violence still exits in the North, according to a leading women’s rights advocate who said the case of Maíria Cahill is not an isolated one.

“Once mighty priests and Provos, powerful men peddling sacred myths in the exercise of squalid and petty power, were brought low by women who could not be terrorised and silenced.”

SET to one side the morality of the quasi-judicial approach and let us deal instead with the craziness of it. The sheer, straight-up, no-messing craziness. The braindead loopiness that characterised this kind of procedure at the time and runs through any contemporary justification of it.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claims the case of Belfast woman Mairia Cahill has been unfairly politicised.

The solicitor of the four people accused of interrogating Mairia Cahill over her allegations of rape says he will not allow them to meet Enda Kenny.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will deliver a speech in Belfast this morning.

As the Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers, is not keen to have the Kincora Boys’ Home abuses aired in the media, because of “sensitivity”, would the self-appointed social workers in Dáil Eireann step in?

THE women victims of Republican violence seem to haunt Gerry Adams the most. Unlike murdered mother-of- 10, Jean McConville, rape survivor Maíria Cahill cannot be tossed into a shallow grave and forgotten about.

Newspaper reports this week show that Gerry Adams seems to have a uniquely clear appreciation of what did and did not go on in the IRA, describing as he does “their acting as a police force, IRA members were singularly ill equipped to deal with such matters. The IRA on occasions shot alleged sex offenders or expelled them. While this may have been expedient at the time, it was not appropriate”. 

Tánaiste Joan Burton says Sinn Féin must explain their handling of the Mairia Cahill case.

Sinn Féin's deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has criticised a blog post which described Máiria Cahill's relationship with her alleged abuser as a "year-long sexual liaison".

An Independent TD is questioning why a Dáil debate is to be held into the issues raised by Máiria Cahill.

Four people accused of covering up the rape of Máiria Cahill have issued a statement rejecting her claims.

Mairia Cahill will discuss her abuse allegations with the Taoiseach at government buildings this morning.

Three criminal cases linked to the alleged rape of a Belfast woman who insists the republican movement covered up her claims are to be independently reviewed, the Public Prosecution Service has announced.