Who is Left, let alone ‘hard-Left’? Labour claims to be Left, while decrying the hard-Left, writes Gerard Howlin

An IRA prison escapee pardoned by Margaret Thatcher’s government has said she was a pragmatist whose ministers made small concessions as part of dealings with Ireland.

One of Ireland’s most notorious criminals had been shot dead in a gangland-style hit this afternoon.

IN Derry, Jan 30, 1972, on what became known as Bloody Sunday, 13 civil rights protesters were shot dead by the British Army.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of a police inspector almost 40 years ago in the North.

A HISTORY of the Workers’ Party written by Irish Examiner journalist Scott Millar and historian Brian Hanley has won the prestigious Brian Farrell prize for the best political science book published last year.

GARDAÍ said 10 people arrested shortly after the gangland murder of Sean Winters on Sunday night do not appear to be strongly connected to the killing.

A SOPHISTICATED currency counterfeit operation uncovered in rural Co Laois was capable of producing millions of euro notes, gardaí suspect.

The achievements of the multi-national team which oversaw paramilitary disarmament in the North were hailed today as its final operational report was published.

The multi-national team given the formidable task of overseeing paramilitary disarmament in the North ended 13 years of work in the region today with its task broadly complete.

THREE Northern Irish paramilitary factions announced the destruction of their illegal arsenals yesterday, 24 hours before an amnesty on the movement of weapons by groups carrying out decommissioning ends.

A second republican paramilitary group in the North announced today that it had decommissioned its weapons.

A former IRA leader wanted in the US over a major dollar counterfeiting operation was back behind bars today after delays in his bail application.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams led tributes to Brendan ‘the Dark’ Hughes, once one of Belfast’s most feared IRA gunmen, who died over the weekend.

A man has been arrested after shots were fired at a former Official IRA leader's funeral.

A former Official IRA leader wanted in the US for forging millions of dollars today criticised a former Irish Government minister at a public meeting in Dublin.

THE grudging welcome by Labour party followers to the destruction of IRA weaponry is typified by Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, September 27).

The Court of Criminal Appeal today dismissed an appeal by Real IRA member Liam Campbell for membership of an illegal organisation.

HUNDREDS of armed troops were in position in Leinster House acting under orders to shoot and kill if necessary during violent protests by republicans in 1972, it emerged yesterday.

Sinn Féin will use centenary celebrations next year to embark on a major recruitment drive on both sides of the border, it emerged today.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will resume in Derry today to hear the closing speech by counsel to the inquiry Christopher Clarke QC.

The leader of the Official IRA on Bloody Sunday has pulled out of giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry because of illness.

BROKE, the subject of vicious lies he is a major drug dealer and the victim of a conspiracy to frame him that involves members of the Irish media and criminals involved in the murder of Veronica Guerin.

A man described today how he heard a shot from an Official IRA gunman before he heard British army fire in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

A man described today how he heard a shot from an Official IRA gunman before he heard Army fire in the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

A former Provo today refused to confirm whether Martin McGuinness had given him orders not to take action on Bloody Sunday, claiming it could put his family’s lives in danger.

DUTCH authorities are considering appealing a decision by a local court to free a major Irish drug trafficker after reading articles about the suspect in Irish and Dutch newspapers.

The chairman of the Bloody Sunday Tribunal today angrily ordered a witness to leave after he refused to co-operate with lawyers.

A former member of the Royal Navy who joined the IRA today conceded he could have fired a shot at the Army before his gun jammed on Bloody Sunday.

The brother of a Bloody Sunday victim today angrily denied an allegation that he passed on a threat from the Provisional IRA to a man forced to flee Derry.

A former member of the Official IRA has admitted that he lied about his role in the organisation in his original statement to the Saville Inquiry.

A former member of the Provisional IRA has told the Saville Inquiry how he confronted an Official IRA gunman who opened fire on British soldiers after they had shot Catholic civilians on Bloody Sunday almost 32 years ago.

Former members of the IRA are set to apply to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry anonymously after the tribunal resumes today.

A former leader of an organisation, widely regarded as the IRA’s youth wing, today compared it with the boy scout movement.

A FORMER IRA man convicted of bombing Derry’s town hall told the Bloody Sunday Tribunal sitting in the same hall yesterday that no Provisionals fired on that day.

A former member of the Official IRA has told the Saville Inquiry that the republican movement was effectively incapable of launching an attack on British soldiers in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

A former Official IRA man has collapsed while giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry in Derry.

Two more Official IRA members are preparing to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal, it emerged tonight.

THE Bloody Sunday tribunal decided yesterday to delay taking legal action against Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness for refusing to reveal the names of fellow IRA members.

Martin McGuinness was facing fierce questioning from lawyers representing soldiers during his second day of evidence before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry today.

Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness allegedly fired a shot inside a bookmaker’s shop in Derry on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

The co-author of a book which alleged that Martin McGuinness handed out nail bombs to youth members of the IRA on Bloody Sunday today denied claims that it was politically motivated.

The Saville Inquiry into the killing of 13 unarmed Catholic civilians by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday is due to resume later today.

The Bloody Sunday inquiry in Derry has refused to grant full legal representation to six former members of the Official IRA who have agreed to give evidence to the inquiry.