Junior Finance Minister Simon Harris has hit out at the leader of Sinn Féin, saying "victim syndrome has engulfed Gerry Adams".

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claims the case of Belfast woman Mairia Cahill has been unfairly politicised.

The fiery demagogue took a long time to agree to ‘break bread’, writes Michael Clifford

Former presidents, taoisigh and cabinet colleagues have paid tributes to peacemaker and former taoiseach Albert Reynolds, who died after a long illness.

Labour’s leadership candidates have clashed on cutting a post-election deal with Sinn Féin, as Joan Burton accused Gerry Adams’s party of still being in a "nexus" with the IRA.

I am more than slightly amused at the moral high ground taken by Mary Lou McDonald, the deputy leader of Sinn Féin, re the payments to the former head of the CRC.

The BBC has apologised for a Question Time production gaffe that saw a Stormont minister labelled as being a member of “Sinn Fein/IRA”.

Some in the crowd wept softly as Taoiseach Enda Kenny bowed his head in honour of Britain’s military dead at Enniskillen’s war memorial.

A senior Orangeman has held out the prospect of progress on parades disputes that have caused continuing tensions around Northern Ireland.

In relation to the handshake with Queen Elizabeth and Martin McGuinness — do not be fooled.

SEEING that Martin McGuinness is now making himself out to be a man of 100% peace, conciliation and dialogue, why didn’t he join the SDLP or Alliance Party in the early 70s and not Sinn Féin/IRA?

THE latest disastrous MRBI opinion poll for Fianna Fáil has it just two points ahead of Sinn Féin when it comes to voter preferences now, just months ahead of the coming general election.

Protestants in the North face "ethnic cleansing" despite the peace process, the leader of the Orange Order claimed today.

TWO features of modern life are:

I REFER to the letter (Irish Examiner, January 27) from Maurice Dockrell complaining about Enda Kenny’s image of a “Celtic and Christian land”.

The widow of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe today praised the courts after her husband’s IRA killers were ordered to pay the costs of their failed bid for freedom.

The republican movement needs to move quickly to build unionist confidence if there is to be power-sharing in the North this spring, Sinn Féin was warned today.

SINN FÉIN’S decision to support the police in the North is a step forward, DUP leader Ian Paisley acknowledged yesterday.

POOR, confused, rudderless Fine Gael.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair was uged today to move to form a devolved government in the North without Sinn Féin.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to make an announcement on future security arrangements in the North, Downing Street said today.

Sinn Féin must agree to the dismantling of IRA structures and return the money stolen in the Northern Bank robbery two years ago if they are to convince unionists to share power, a Democratic Unionist (DUP) MP has warned.

Peter Hain was today challenged to confirm whether or not a deal had been struck with Gerry Adams to allow exiled paramilitaries back to the North in return for Sinn Féin's endorsement of the police force.

SINN FÉIN’s most senior members — including Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness — were locked in talks last night to decide whether to ask its national executive to meet this weekend and discuss its policy on policing.

Sinn Féin's dithering over support for the Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI) has led to the timetable for devolution becoming almost impossible to meet, it was claimed today.

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

STORM isn’t a verb that’s usually applied in relation to just one individual. But when loyalist killer Michael Stone stormed Stormont last night, there was a grisly precedent.

A hardline DUP MP has prompted further pessimism about the prospects for progress in the North following an uncompromising speech last night.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain will today meet Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern in the North as preparations continue for top-level talks later this week.

The British and Irish governments will tomorrow review the lack of progress in restoring devolution in Northern Ireland since the parties were given a November deadline to a breakthrough.

The British government was told to hang its head in shame tonight after Irish republicans held a commemoration at the former Maze Prison to 10 IRA and INLA prisoners who died on hunger strike.

DEMOCRATIC Unionist leader Ian Paisley yesterday claimed the Irish Government had given itself a role in running Northern Ireland.

DUBLIN and London will "call time" on the North's devolved assembly, if no power-sharing deal is struck by November, the two governments declared yesterday.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams insisted that republicans had turned their back on violence for good as he used his Árd Fheis address to focus on the next Dáil election battle.

The SDLP’s call for an all-Ireland police intelligence agency was described today as the most blatant attempt to politicise policing.

REMARKS by Senator Mary O’Rourke that her campaign team “worked like blacks” (Irish Examiner, January 9) reveal how entrenched racist attitudes are in Fianna Fáil and the wider republican tradition to which it is aligned.

SINN Féin President Gerry Adams yesterday accused “out of control” securocrats of attempting to orchestrate another peace process crisis as he identified senior party member Denis Donaldson as a British agent.

Ulster Unionist threats to quit Northern Ireland’s Policing Board should be taken with a pinch of salt, a rival said tonight.

SO the IRA has supposedly destroyed its weapons.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today called on the British and Irish Governments to move quickly to restore power-sharing in the wake of IRA decommissioning.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is to raise the Dublin murder of Joseph Rafferty with Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at their next meeting, it emerged today.

THE column by former Fianna Fáil adviser Noel Whelan (Irish Examiner, September 15) is typical of the arrogance of that party concerning unionists and loyalists and their total ignorance as regards the situation in Northern Ireland.

MURDER victim Robert McCartney's sisters have joined forces with the family of another man allegedly killed for defying the IRA and vowed to bring the killers to justice.

A police chief today urged officers to fire baton rounds sooner, in a bid to halt any repeat of the rioting that left nearly 90 people injured in Belfast.