Sinn Féin has given its backing to the establishment of a Truth Commission in the North after consulting with rank-and-file republicans.

A South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission may not work in the North, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said today.

PUBLIC inquiries into three Northern Ireland killings involving alleged official collusion should be suspended while experts review ways of dealing with the past, senior police said yesterday.

A former Church of Ireland primate and a one time Catholic priest were today appointed by the government to draw up proposals about how the North should come to terms with its bloody past.

The families of victims of Northern Ireland’s Troubles need a forum like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

Police in Northern Ireland are reaching a point where they cannot cope with demands to re-open unsolved murders from the North's troubled history, the force’s chief constable said today.

The British government must be compelled to deliver on its promise to implement the findings of a report into four controversial killings in the North, the brother of one of the victims claimed today.