WHEN eight British soldiers were arrested by the gardaí in the middle of the night in May 1976, it was one of the most embarrassing diplomatic incidents of the Troubles.

Catherine Shanahan hears of a heartbreaking decision to leave a lovingly restored home in Cobh, made for children. Pictures: Dan Linehan

"It has become clear this type of abuse is becoming a weekly occurrence for James."

Colum Eastwood (Foyle) was the first of the newly elected cohort of MPs to make his maiden speech in the Commons.

Our writers select 10 sports books for your Christmas list.

For 99 years, Jerome O’Leary, Patrick O’Dowd and Michael Feery lay in unmarked graves.

Armagh attacker Oisin O’Neill reckons the new Tier 2 championship will ensure that next year’s Division 2 league campaign is more competitive than ever.

The Big Fellow broke six men out of Strangeways prison 100 years ago. The priority was Sinn Féin’s Austin Stack, but the two men would fall out bitterly, says Ryle Dwyer.

Former British intelligence spy inside Sinn Féin, Willie Carlin, talks to Cormac O’Keeffe about Martin McGuinness, the IRA ‘Nutting Squad’ and his fears over possible trials

A former British spy in Sinn Féin has expressed fears that if prosecutions are taken against senior party figures and IRA veterans, it could have an impact on Brexit and the restoration of Stormont.

A book lent to me before the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII on September 1 was Dark Times, Decent Men: Stories of Irishmen in World War II. They from the North and South of Ireland and were in the British army, navy and the RAF and armies and merchant navies of the USA, Canada, Australia etc.

Anti-terrorism chiefs in the North have welcomed the arrest by Gardaí of two suspected dissident republicans in connection with an attempt to murder a PSNI officer last June.

We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by by looking back at some Irish Examiner front pages and highlighting other events which went down in history across the world.

An explosive device has detonated in Co Fermanagh as police and British Army bomb disposal officers were searching the area.

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We take a trip down memory lane and check out what happened on this day in years gone by.

An Iraqi war veteran who developed drug addictions a result of his military service has being jailed for robbery and car jacking.

A three-man "hit for hire team" have received sentences totalling 36.5 years at the Special Criminal Court for planning to kill a member of the Hutch family before they were intercepted by gardai just 250 metres from their target's home in Dublin's north inner city.

Privacy is the sexy topic of the day. Except when it comes to the relatives of people with disabilities associated with aging, writes Terry Prone

Leave it to Maureen Madill to put into perspective how big a deal hosting the 148th Open Championship is to the membership at Royal Portrush and all of her native land.

After what seems like an eternity, season one of Derry Girls is now available to watch on Netflix.

Shamim Malekmian meets the rebels behind Elders for the Earth, who are supporting the teenage climate strikers’ campaign for greener policies.

An alleged IRA bomber given a so-called “comfort letter” by the Tony Blair Government, has lost his latest challenge aimed at preventing his extradition to Northern Ireland for the 1972 Enniskillen bombing.

A police chief who is investigating the British Army's top-ranking IRA agent told the UK Prime Minister she "got it wrong" on legacy cases in Northern Ireland.

While Ireland was officially neutral in the Second World War, thousands of Irishmen fought against fascism by serving in the British, American, and Canadian armies, including on Normandy’s beaches, says Sean O’Riordan

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information after five letter bombs were posted from Ireland in March.

An alleged IRA bomber given a so-called “comfort letter” by the Tony Blair Government, must wait to hear the outcome of an appeal against his proposed extradition north for the 1972 Enniskillen bombing.

British intelligence was very good at identifying Republicans who were interned without trial in Spike Island in 1921.

It is almost 100 years to the day since 14,000 workers in Limerick went on strike in protest at the British army imposing martial law.

A war veteran impersonated a garda and hijacked a car with “a broken airsoft gun”, a court has heard.

The family of a man shot dead in 1976 say they have been failed by the Irish Government and the Gardaí.

Latest: A parcel bomb found at a Limerick postal depot appears identical to a series of devices sent to Great Britain, gardaí have said.

The European Champions’ Cup emerges from hibernation next week offering a ray of sunshine for those Irish players hung out to dry after the deluge and days of cascading criticism.

When, on Wednesday, Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley insisted that killings by the British army or police during the Troubles were “not crimes” she gave a perfect example of what happens when politicians are ill-informed and have no empathy with their brief. Despite her immediate apology, the blunder suggests she is hardly the person

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

British Secretary for Northern Ireland Karen Bradley is facing calls for her to resign after she said killings by the British army and police during the Troubles were “not crimes”.

Taoiseach Charles Haughey told British prime minister Margaret Thatcher that the Irish government was ‘constantly ballyragged’ by the British and received ‘no credit’ for the work they had been doing, writes Seán McCárthaigh

Dublin-born Fiachna Ó Braonáin, 53, is a guitarist with Hothouse Flowers.

Acknowledging that many of its members fought in the British army does not diminish the GAA’s contribution to Irish society or the fact that many others of its members fought in 1916 and in the War of Independence, writes Paul Rouse

There has been outrage over potential legal action against soldiers for events linked to the Troubles.

BP Fallon is holding the first ever exhibition of pictures he’s taken of some of the music legends he’s hung out with, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Successive Westminister governments have resisted demands that former members of the British army stand trial for murders committed in Northern Ireland, no matter how compelling the evidence.