BLANKETMEN, first published in 2005, has been reprinted in 2016 with a new foreword by Richard English. 

Twenty years after the killing of Det Jerry McCabe, the survivor of the IRA attack Det Ben O’Sullivan says he has learnt to live with it, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe

John Hume wanted to have talks with the IRA Army Council in what senior government officials thought was a plan for a public and damaging confrontation.

Fine Gael’s election promises of 2011 turned out to be nothing more than aspiration, with healthcare and the vulnerable all suffering in the meantime.

A Garda assessment has found there is no evidence of the IRA Army Council meeting or functioning within the Republic of Ireland.

In the Morning I’ll Be Gone

IF IT really was a “war” in the North as Gerry Adams claims, then where were the rules of war?

The family of an assassinated prison officer have pleaded for a face-to-face meeting with his killers after the IRA finally admitted it was behind the murder.

MUSCLING in on popular culture is all the political rage in Britain at the moment with even deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hosting his own radio phone-in.

Two men have successfully appealed against a High Court ruling that held them responsible for the Omagh bombing today, but two others had their appeals dismissed.

Former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley clashed with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today over the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont.

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today that unionist demands for disbandment of the IRA’s ruling Army Council was not part of the deal which set up the North’s power-sharing government.

Northern Secretary Shaun Woodward today called for “leadership” from the North's politicians and demanded that the Executive must meet.

The IRA's ruling Army Council which once directed its campaign of violence is no longer operational, a major report revealed today.

The IRA’s ruling Army Council which once directed its campaign of violence is no longer operational, a major report revealed today.

The British government will publish a report today on the status of the IRA as unionists and republicans enter talks on the future of the North's government.

The Irish and British governments were today handed a security assessment on the IRA’s ruling Army Council.

Confirmation that the IRA’s ruling Army Council has been disbanded will not necessarily pave the way for devolved policing and justice, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said tonight.

The IRA could be taken off the British government's list of banned organisations, it was disclosed today.

Representatives from Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party are to meet British prime minister Gordon Brown in Downing Street today.

The British government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

The Democratic Unionist Party was tonight urged by Gerry Adams to calm down after a Northern Ireland Assembly committee failed to reach agreement on a date for the transfer of policing and justice powers to Stormont.

The North's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said today he would have killed every single British soldier in Derry in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday if he had been able to.

Calls for the IRA's Army Council to disband are a distraction, Sinn Féin insisted today.

The actions of dissident republicans must not be allowed to block the transfer of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Northern Ireland Assembly members were told today.

Ian Paisley issued a call for the IRA to disband its army council in a British House of Commons magazine, it emerged tonight.

European Union chiefs were today urged to put pressure on Sinn Féin to disband the IRA Army Council.

A senior member of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists today expressed concern that the IRA is not obliged to disband its Army Council under the St Andrews Agreement.

KERRY NORTH Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris yesterday repeated his denial that he had been a member of the IRA Army Council.

IT may have been the PD’s birthday party but Sinn Féin gatecrashed it without even trying.

Sinn Féin faces a moment of truth after police chiefs confirmed they believe the IRA carried out the Northern Bank robbery, Minister for Justice Michael McDowell said today.

The IRA will not made into a legal organisation until it gets rid of its treasonable constitution, the Justice Minister said today.

THE IRA formally called off another campaign on Thursday. Sinn Féin leaders have basically got the IRA to affirm what they promised when they signed the Good Friday Agreement more than seven years ago.

The IRA statement today takes effect from 4pm.

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.”

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday attempted to defuse the furore over Michael McDowell’s naming of Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Martin Ferris as IRA Army Council members, by declining to back up the Minister for Justice’s view.

The unravelling of the Northern Ireland peace process will get worse unless the Republican movement starts to deliver, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said tonight.

The Dáil was united tonight in a resounding call on Sinn Féin and the IRA to denounce violence and embrace democracy.

Sinn Féin is milking the Northern Ireland peace process for political gain and the Irish Government’s patience is running out, it was claimed today.

Bertie Ahern has called for a period for everybody to seek engagement on the outstanding issues of the Good Friday Agreement.

Sinn Féin knew the IRA was planning the £26.5m (€26m) Northern Bank raid as well as other robberies while holding key political talks with the Irish and British governments, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Chief Constable Hugh Orde was urged tonight to say who he thinks was behind the £22m (€31m) Northern Bank raid in Belfast.

TOTAL IRA disarmament is a mirage, it was claimed yesterday.