The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) confirmed announced today that it has decommissioned its weapons.

There was widespread uncertainty today regarding today's announcement from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) that it is to end to its 30-year campaign of republican violence in the North.

A number of left-wing organisations have launched a joint campaign for a 'no' vote in the forthcoming re-run of the Lisbon Treat referendum.

A man from the North denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he was an INLA member when he was arrested by gardaí investigating a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

One of three men accused of INLA membership told gardaí that he did not know two men who last month pleaded guilty to membership of the same organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

IN life, Tony Gregory pulled no punches in cutting through the pomposity of politics. And, in death, his close colleagues maintained that tradition.

The independent TD Tony Gregory has died after a long illness.

Three republican groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement have formed a new "forum for unity" and say they will be embarking on a series of public meetings to drum up support.

THREE men are due to appear at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin this morning after gardaí foiled a tiger kidnapping plot by a dissident republican organisation in Cork city.

There have been "no cases" of people being intimidated with baseball bats in Waterford city since the arrest of two local men accused of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

REPUBLICANS must do more to end the suffering of families whose loved ones mysteriously vanished during Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the SDLP said yesterday.

GARDAÍ tried to keep a fresh probe into the mysterious death of a veteran political activist under wraps as they were worried about conducting the investigation under a media spotlight, it has emerged.

Two years after Mary Reid’s mysterious death, her family still fights for the truth, writes John Breslin.

BELFAST parish priest Fr Aidan Troy yesterday described the tarring of two Ardoyne teenagers, victims of a so-called punishment attack by the INLA republican paramilitary group, as child abuse.

A Catholic priest today denounced a so-called punishment attack on two teenagers in north Belfast by republicans over Easter, describing it as “child abuse”.

A Co Clare man arrested at an suspected Continuity IRA meeting in Limerick denied at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he was ever a member of an illegal organisation.

A committee has been formed in Belfast to speak for all republican prisoners still in jail.

Three men were today in hospital after being shot in the legs in apparent paramilitary style attacks in a republican area of north Belfast.