Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today welcomed the decision by Martin McGuinness to a state banquet with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, saying that people had to “move on and not be blocked by the past”.

Reporter Andrew Gilligan’s claim that the British government inserted intelligence into its controversial Iraq dossier knowing it was probably wrong was “unfounded”, Lord Hutton said today.

Alastair Campbell is set to be cleared by MPs of exaggerating intelligence on Iraq to justify war, it was revealed today.

IN the early days after Tony Blair was swept into Downing Street, a Fleet Street photographer was dispatched to get a picture of the new prime minister and his wife “at home”.

The terrorist atrocities of September 11 have strengthened the case for new forms of missile defence, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said today.