Sinn Féin have denied that an invitation from its leader, Gerry Adams, to Taoiseach Enda Kenny to meet with senior republicans included those alleged by rape victim Maíria Cahill to have taken part in a ‘kangaroo court’.

WE all know that Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach from 1992 to 1994, hasn’t always enjoyed the kindest press. It’s not just The Sunday Times that has been harsh.

IF we should hesitate to accept the word of the securocrats, as Sinn Féin-IRA suggest, we should be loathe also to accept the assurances of a group of terrorists and the most discredited political party in this state.

HE may have angered Chirac and Schröder (Irish Examiner, Jan 24), but Donald Rumsfeld was playing a canny diplomatic game in claiming that France and Germany were merely the ‘old Europe.’

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble tonight accused nationalist politicians of a “hysterical reaction” to his party position on paramilitary violence and his threat to pull the party out of the power-sharing government at Stormont in three months unless there is action from the IRA.