Britain’s intelligence services may have masterminded an IRA human bomb strategy which killed soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland in 1990, a lobby group claimed today.

Murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane's family today pledged to take their fight to Dublin after accusing Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain of resisting demands for major changes to the inquiry into his killing.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight faced demands from Sinn Féin to remove clauses from a controversial Bill which would allow police and British army involved in murders during Northern Ireland’s Troubles to avoid jail.

A public inquiry into the killing of a Catholic man by a loyalist mob eight years ago opened today.

British government legislation for the inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane could be used to suppress facts in a tribunal into allegations of British army bullying in Deepcut Barracks, Lords in the UK were warned today.

New legislation for an inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane could be used to suppress the truth in all future public inquiries, it was claimed today.

Tony Blair will face criticism today from the family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane over the handling of an inquiry into his killing.

A letter has been sent to Tony Blair urging him to ensure the British government sticks to its commitments on inquiries into three controversial murders in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

The British government was under pressure today from human rights activists to order separate public independent inquiries into four controversial killings in the North.

The long-awaited Barron report into terrorist bombings in Dublin and the border town of Monaghan on the same night almost 30 years ago was due to be published today.

A full judicial inquiry, complete with the co-operation of the British government, is the only way the real truth will be revealed behind the 1974 terrorist bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, campaigners said today.

BRITAIN last night faced new demands to call an international judicial inquiry after a European Court of Human Rights ruling which claimed the Royal Ulster Constabulary investigation of the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane was ineffective.

A new report into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane published today was expected to confirm shocking levels of police Special Branch collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.

International pressure for a full judicial inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane is to intensify after a new report tomorrow will confirm shocking levels of police Special Branch collusion with loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland.

All police officers in Northern Ireland will be expected to work with fairness and integrity under a new human rights rule book launched today.

The family of a Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary officer whose murder is at the centre of a Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman investigation into possible police misconduct today hoped the probe would ‘‘uncover the truth’’ about his murder.

In a letter sent to the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid today, a human rights organisation urged the British government to allow another force to investigate the killing of William Stobie.