Considered by many the cornerstone of peace and stability on the island of Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement and the path to it was fraught with hurdles and political landmines, writes Juno McEnroe.

Reports that a Northern Ireland-based journalist has been subjected to a death threat from a loyalist paramilitary group has prompted condemnations across the political divide.

While intensive and daily negotiations about peace were going on, the IRA planned and executed a terrible atrocity. Adams honoured the bomber, writes Fergus Finlay

Four people have been arrested by detectives investigating the feud murder of a loyalist.

A man has been arrested over the murder of a father in front of his three-year-old son.

Sinn Féin's leader in the North will today meet PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton to discuss UDA activity.

Sinn Fein leader at Stormont, Michelle O'Neill and the Democratic Unionist Nigel Dodds repeatedly clashed in a heated televised election debate this evening.

The Special Criminal Court has accepted allegations that a former Sinn Féin Councillor claimed he was in the IRA and threatened the family of a man he had falsely imprisoned and waterboarded.

A son of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has been announced as a Sinn Féin election candidate.

Three men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a prominent loyalist paramilitary.

Your letters, your view

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) said it had no option but to walk away from the North’s power sharing Executive after trust in Sinn Féin broke down.

Three men have been found guilty of planning to murder former loyalist leader Johnny ”Mad Dog” Adair in Scotland.

A judicial review into the British Government’s decision not to hold a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane will have a big impact regardless of the outcome, the solicitor’s son has said.

One of Northern Ireland’s most senior British Army officers is to be sued over the death of a Catholic man in the North more than 40 years ago.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the sectarian murder of a man in east Belfast over 40 years ago.

A 61-year-old man has been arrested today in connection with the murder of a barman almost 40 years ago.

A Northern Ireland policing watchdog has found no evidence the Royal Ulster Constabulary was involved in a loyalist gun attack on Gerry Adams 30 years ago.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson has accused his predecessor Ian Paisley of going down a “dangerous road” with his claims that the Government provoked one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles.

The Rev. Ian Paisley has effectively accused the Irish Government of provoking the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which claimed the lives of 33 people.

Governments in Dublin and London should join all-party negotiations in the North on dealing with the legacy of the past, victims of the Troubles have said.

A death threat has been issued to a female journalist in Northern Ireland, a union claimed today.

Police today arrested a man in the UK's west Midlands for questioning about two loyalist paramilitary killings in the North.

Eight people investigated in connection with the murder of a journalist in the North more than a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about a key witness's evidence, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) said today.

Reared in a UDA stronghold Carl Frampton is, by some distance, Ireland’s best chance of a world title next year. Sportswriter of the Year Ewan MacKenna spent the day with him in Tiger’s Bay, the Belfast enclave he is changing with every punch.

The Irish Government should trawl its documents archive to support the family of a solicitor murdered by Northern Ireland loyalists with state support, it was claimed.

The "clamour" surrounding the investigation into the killing of solicitor Pat Finucane is not going to fade away when the current headlines are replaced, it has been claimed.

An edited version of British prime minister David Cameron’s statement to the House of Commons on the de Silva report into the 1989 killing of the Belfast solicitor

Some of the key points raised in Desmond de Silva’s 500-page report:

British prime minister David Cameron has refused to launch a public inquiry into the loyalist murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane despite the levels of state involvement outlined in a government review.

Desmond de Silva’s report into the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane may have added detail to what is already widely believed, but the confirmation that security forces could have intervened and saved Mr Finucane’s life still has, more than two decades later, the capacity to shock.

The mother of the so-called forgotten victim in the Pat Finucane collusion scandal has spoken of the need for the murdered solicitor’s wife to move on with her life.

The murder of Pat Finucane was "an appalling crime", British Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons today.

Street violence over flags is unacceptable and must stop, the Northern Ireland Assembly warned today.

Police were bracing themselves for another night of violence after a protest by loyalists against new restrictions on flying the Union flag passed peacefully.

Hundreds of loyalist protesters, many wearing balaclavas and masks, have begun a fresh protest outside Belfast City Hall.

Loyalists have denied making a death threat against a Belfast-based journalist.

Two loyalist supergrasses were interviewed 330 times by police before their evidence was used in a trial, the North's justice minister said today.

Loyalist leader Mark Haddock was cleared today of the murder of paramilitary rival Tommy English 12 years ago.

A judge is today due to deliver his verdict in the murder trial of loyalist leader Mark Haddock and alleged members of his paramilitary gang.

FASCINATING how so many privileged rich kids need to play at being terrorists.

The British government is to face a legal challenge over its failure to launch a public inquiry into security force collusion in the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, it has emerged today.