The so-called New IRA which admitted killing journalist and activist Lyra McKee during a night of riots in Derry’s Creggan estate may have announced its formation in July 2012, but its origins stretch back five years earlier, writes Dieter Reinisch

Sinn Féin’s move to support the police in the North leaves unionists with no excuse to balk at power-sharing, NI Secretary Peter Hain insisted today.

Former associates of a feared IRA assassin killed by the SAS may have murdered Denis Donaldson, it emerged today.