Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says any suggestion that Conor Murphy is holding back information on the murder of Paul Quinn is deeply wrong.

THE IRA ceasefire is purely tactical, designed to achieve undemocratic ends, the Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest Country Report on Ireland asserts.

Sinn Féin knew the IRA was planning the £26.5m (€26m) Northern Bank raid as well as other robberies while holding key political talks with the Irish and British governments, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

THE International Monitoring Committee is to write to members of political parties who they believed to be in senior positions within paramilitary groups to tell them that they intended naming them.