Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today denounced as “offensive” a proposal to offer financial compensation to the family of every person killed in the North's Troubles.

People guilty of crimes linked to the Troubles will not be handed an automatic amnesty in any reconciliation process, a group dealing with the legacy of violence said today.

The group considering how to deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles will today reveal their plans to British and Irish politicians behind closed doors.

A forum of politicians is to call on the British government to release secret files on the Real IRA suspects behind the Omagh bombing.

A security force cover-up of a loyalist pub bombing that killed 15 people in 1971 is to be raised at Westminster in the UK tomorrow.

You can’t deny the state — British or Irish — the exclusive right to use legitimate force and, at the same time, hold it to a higher standard than paramilitaries.

Relatives of 11 people killed by the British army in disputed circumstances today appealed for TDs to support their campaign for an independent inquiry.

The panel set up to deal with the North’s troubled past is hopelessly divided, the DUP claimed today.

Republican sources say the IRA leadership is unlikely to meet the body appointed by the British Government to find a way of addressing the North's violent past.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was today urged to agree to an all-party Dáil motion endorsing the various reports which probed violent atrocities in the North.

The joint chairman of the British government appointed panel looking into how to settle the legacy of the Northern conflict have said they will publish their report.

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