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A former IRA leader in the Maze prison in the North was remanded in custody yesterday on charges linked to a police investigation into a murder outside a Belfast bar.

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The republican movement must stop pretending to be like the peacemaker Nelson Mandela when it is in fact closer to the dictator Robert Mugabe, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said tonight.

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A FORMER IRA jail chief attacked for claiming the organisation blocked a life-saving deal to end the 1981 hunger strike last night declared: “The truth’s on my side.”

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