Gerry Adams was working on a peace strategy in early 1987, State papers have revealed.

Gardaí have released a man they were questioning in connection with a double murder in Co Louth, 30 years ago.

Waiting times for cases to be heard before the anti-terror courts almost halved last year, a report revealed.

Detectives investigating the INLA have arrested a man in west Belfast.

A funeral will be held later for one of the "Disappeared" victims of the Troubles more than 30 years after he was murdered and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries.

Garda armed units are on high alert after the Hutch gang exacted revenge on the Kinahan cartel by shooting dead a low ranking member.

The body of 'Disappeared' victim Seamus Ruddy has been found in France.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the news from the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) today.

Having retired from the force after 39 years, Michael O’Sullivan has seen gangs come and go, and has no doubt what faces the Kinahan cartel. He talks to Cormac O’Keeffe

Ammunition and pipe bombs thought to be linked to the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) have been seized in Belfast.

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

An internal INLA dispute and the Kinahan-Hutch feud are being examined as motives for the latest gun attack in Dublin.

A man was ‘crucified’ by having his feet nailed onto the kitchen floor of a house where he was held captive, it was alleged yesterday at Limerick District Court.

A former paramilitary who served two years of a life sentence for the murder of a British soldier has been spared jail for possessing €10,000 worth of stolen designer sunglasses in Dublin.

Gardaí are bracing themselves for fresh gangland violence with the burial of slain criminal Gerard Kavanagh.

Gardaí investigating the gangland murder of Andy Connors are said to be "quietly confident" of making progress.

Gardaí are investigating if dissident republicans might have been involved in the gangland murder of Andy Connors on Tuesday night.

GAA pundit Joe Brolly has suggested it is nobody else’s business if gaelic clubs are named after dead republican paramilitaries.

A retired detective who prayed over the body of a murdered colleague shot down in front of him in a Tallaght gun battle 31 years ago has been awarded €150,000 damages at a Garda compensation hearing in the High Court.

Garda killer Noel Callan will walk free in under two years after a landmark judgment in the Supreme Court ruled he was eligible for remission on his 40-year sentence.

A man whose trial for the murder of a Belfast taxi driver collapsed in 2011 will not be tried with demanding money with menaces on behalf of the INLA in Co Monaghan last year after the charges were dropped.

ONE of the most memorable assessments of Margaret Thatcher was delivered by French president François Mitterrand when he declared: “She has the eyes of Stalin and the voice of Marilyn Monroe.”

Peter Pringle was condemned to death for the murder of two gardaí, but was freed on appeal. In his book he claimed a miscarriage of justice. Not everyone agrees, writes Michael Clifford

Two former paramilitary prisoners, one UVF and the other INLA, are in Co Cork tomorrow as part of a human rights project.

Northern Irish writer Adrian McKinty has set his detective fiction in the milieu of the Troubles, says Declan Burke

The Border Fox, Dessie O’Hare, was one of the chief mourners yesterday at the funeral of murdered criminal Eamon Kelly.

Criminal gangs are a “bigger threat” to the security of the state than the IRA or any other terrorist group ever were, a former Garda chief said yesterday.

ONE of the top IRA prisoners in the Maze during the hunger strike wanted John Hume to act as an intermediary to end the protest, state papers have revealed.

KEVIN LYNCH’S mother sent a poignant letter and Mass card to late taoiseach Charles Haughey warning that her son and others would die on hunger strike.

GARDAÍ were last night waiting to quiz former INLA terror boss Dessie O’Hare from his hospital bed after he was injured in a hit-and-run incident.

The funeral will take place today of David Wright, father of murdered loyalist terrorist Billy Wright.

The father of murdered loyalist leader Billy Wright has died aged 78.

AN armed terrorist “enforcement team” was sent down from the North at the weekend to demand money from a colleague engaged in a suspected extortion racket.

A body exhumed from a cemetery in the long-running search for a teenage IRA victim murdered without trace in 1975 is not one of the so-called 'Disappeared'.

A body exhumed from a churchyard cemetery where it was secretly buried is suspected to be a teenage IRA victim murdered 35 years ago.

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

Twenty-one police witnesses to alleged security force shoot-to-kill incidents in the North are dead, a coroner's court heard today.

An 18-year-old on trial for murder told Gardaí the neighbour he is accused of shooting dead had threatened to “put him in a wheelchair” and said he had paid the INLA who would come knocking on his door.