Closing the Tullamore bypass is one option being considered by Offaly Council Council after the stretch failed skid safety tests.

Proposals to pay compensation to all victims of the North's conflict are a distraction, a nationalist victims’ campaigner said today.

Survivors of the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings today backed moves towards an independent truth commission into the North's recent conflict.

A truth commission to examine the bloody legacy of the Troubles in the North must not follow South Africa’s ’confrontational’ model, victims’ groups said today.

Three groups representing victims of the Troubles have rejected the British government's consultative panel on how to deal with the past.

Human rights campaigners in the North are seeking an independent investigation into the use of plastic bullets by the British army during the Troubles.

A public inquiry has been urged into alleged British state involvement in murders in the Republic of Ireland ahead of a Government report on the killings out today.

The British government was today urged by a senior US politician to publicly acknowledge members of the police and British army colluded with loyalist paramilitaries during the North's Troubles.

A report concluding that members of the RUC and British army colluded in 74 loyalist murders during the 1970s is due to be presented to the Irish Government today.

A US academic today spoke of his shock at the extent of apparent security force collusion in loyalist paramilitary murders in the North.

A human rights investigation has found 'credible evidence' of police and British Army collusion in 74 sectarian murders during the Troubles in the North.

A special detective unit in the Republic to investigate unsolved murders during the Troubles was today ruled out by the Justice Department’s top official.

Margaret Thatcher was warned the British Army suspected the Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily infiltrated by Protestant extremists in the North four years before she became UK Prime Minister, it was claimed today.

The Pat Finucane Centre in Derry has claimed to have uncovered new evidence of collusion between the British army and loyalist paramilitaries.

Three groups working with the victims of alleged collusion have called on the British government to reconsider its plan to allow paramilitary fugitives to return to the North without fear of imprisonment.

A PLACE in the Guinness World Records is being sought for a Northern Ireland police station - as the least used in any city.

Police officers in Northern Ireland are to be equipped with CS spray in a new move to quell trouble on the streets, it emerged tonight.

A COURT ruling in Belfast yesterday could force the British Government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland to reopen murder cases involving the army and members of the RUC.

Outraged human rights campaigners today criticised a decision not to prosecute a soldier who shot dead a Derry schoolboy despite breaching firearms guidelines.

The SDLP has demanded a full inquiry into allegations that senior RUC officers suppressed a tape-recorded confession of a loyalist admitting the murder of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane.