The North's police chief has delivered a stark message to the British Government on stalled proposals to deal with the legacy of the Troubles - "stop prevaricating and get on with it".

One man is to be prosecuted using evidence from a loyalist paramilitary-turned-supergrass informer over the Troubles murder of two Catholic workmen in the North.

Two men arrested by detectives investigating the intimidation of four Catholic families in Belfast have been released.

Detectives investigating the intimidation of four Catholic families in Belfast have arrested two men.

Northern Ireland's police chief has blamed the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force for issuing threats to four Catholic families in a cross-community housing development in Belfast.

A prominent Belfast victims campaigner has implored the Northern Ireland Secretary not to lift the ban on the Red Hand Commando (RHC).

The police's failure to conduct an overarching examination of state collusion with a notorious loyalist murder gang in Northern Ireland was inconsistent with its human rights obligations, a judge has found.

A former loyalist paramilitary commander turned supergrass has pleaded guilty to 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.

EVERY now and then the past intrudes on our today. Sometimes it brings a smile, maybe the glow of a happy memory.

Latest: Relatives of victims of a former loyalist paramilitary commander turned supergrass watched on this morning as Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty to 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.

Thirty-three people were killed, including a pregnant woman at full term, when loyalist paramilitaries detonated four no-warning bombs in Dublin and Monaghan on May 17 1974.

The North's security forces were guilty of significant collusion in the loyalist murders of six Catholic men gunned down while watching a World Cup football match, a police watchdog in the North has found.

“The true history of a passionate period,” wrote PS O’Hegarty in The Victory of Sinn Féin in 1924, “cannot be written by any contemporary. We are all too near it.”

Ned Daly always wanted to be a soldier so when the Irish Volunteers were founded he seized his chance, says Helen Litton

The North’s politicians have been called into talks next week to resolve the crisis over IRA activity.

Closure of a long-running inquest into the controversial killing of a North’s pensioner has been held up by at least two weeks.

Bullets have been sent to the homes of two political representatives in Northern Ireland.

Bullets have been sent to the homes of two political representatives in the North.

A pro-life campaigner has denied cackling like a witch in a bid to intimidate the director of the North’s first abortion clinic, a court has heard.

The former taoiseach does no service to the memory of the Irish dead of World War One by denigrating the men and women of 1916, writes Gerry Adams

Northern Ireland’s first minister Peter Robinson has made a public apology for any offence caused to Muslims by his defence of a controversial preacher.

Wreaths have been laid at the site of one of three bombs which exploded 40 years ago today in the single worst day of atrocities in the Troubles.

Relatives of 33 people killed in loyalist bombings in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings 40 years ago are suing the British Government over alleged collusion.

Prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy was an innocent victim of a loyalist ambush in the North almost 25 years ago, his lawyer said.

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.

President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to the selfless Irish Volunteers whom he said laid the foundations for freedom 100 years ago.

Two men arrested on the UK mainland by police investigating a loyalist sectarian murder in the North 40 years ago have been released pending reports to prosecutors.

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

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.

Dolours Price, who was jailed for the IRA bombing of London’s Old Bailey in 1973, has died.

Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price has been found dead, it has emerged today.

More police officers will inevitably be needed in the North because of the high threat of further serious violence, the chief constable said today.

Rioters are the enemies of democracy, the North’s First Minister said today.

Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers, has described the recent trouble in Belfast as "simply incomprehensible".

Police have fired baton rounds and deployed water cannon on rioters as violence linked to the Union Flag row flared in east Belfast again.

Around a thousand loyalist protesters picketed Belfast City Hall tonight over the Union flag row as violent disturbances again broke out elsewhere in Northern Ireland’s capital.

Senior members of the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force are orchestrating loyalist street violence that has seen police come under attack in Belfast on four successive nights, the North's Chief Constable has said.

SDLP Councillor Claire Hanna, her husband and their baby daughter have escaped injury after shots were fired at their home in East Belfast, hitting the front door and windows.

Politicians and church leaders are holding talks in the North this afternoon in an attempt to stem loyalist street violence over the flying of the Union flag.

Experience has always been, and remains, one of the very best teachers.

The North’s Police Ombudsman is to launch a fresh investigation into the loyalist gun killings at Loughinisland.