The daughter of a Conservative MP killed by the Brighton bomb today said she may have made the same choices as her father’s IRA killer if she had lived his life.

ONE evening a couple of weeks ago a TD showed me a copy of an invitation he had received to the launch of a democracy commission. The invitation said this commission would conduct an audit of democracy in this country.

A high-profile delegation of US Congresswomen arrived in Northern Ireland on a fact-finding mission today.