Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has condemned today’s attempted bombing of a Belfast shopping centre as “attempted murder”.

The US has paid tribute to peacemaker priest Fr Alec Reid.

The remains of Fr. Alec Reid, an influential figure in the Northern Ireland peace process, will be lie in repose this afternoon at Marianella Chapel on Orwell Road, in Dublin.

It took years of hard and often fractious negotiations before the gun was finally taken out of politics in the North.

A priest who helped broker the IRA’s ceasefire in 1994 has died at the age of 82 in hospital in Dublin.

Belfast priest, Fr Alec Reid, described as one of the architects of the peace process, has died.

An envelope containing a key document which helped trigger the peace process in the North was smeared with the blood of two soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast, a new TV documentary reveals tonight.

Former president Mary McAleese has decried the Church’s treatment of five silenced priests, accusing Rome of operating through fear and imposing strictures on the clerics which “consume the truth”.

Des O’Driscoll rounds up the highlights of this coming week on TV

Two clergymen who witnessed the decommissioning of IRA weapons will be honoured for their role in the key chapter of the peace process, it was announced today.

TEN people were killed and 86 wounded yesterday in a suicide bomb attack on a bus carrying riot police in the Sri Lankan capital Columbo.

CONFESSION is good for the soul so, hands up, I was wrong last week. Like everyone else, I expected Barack Obama to win New Hampshire.

A BELFAST-BASED priest who witnessed the IRA decommissioning yesterday said working for peace was like playing in a hurling final that never ends.

A Belfast-based priest who witnessed the IRA decommissioning will be presented with the Tipperary Person of the Year Award today.

A Belfast priest who played a key role in the Irish peace process has revealed his involvement in the brokering of the permanent ceasefire announced by ETA yesterday.

The IRA has denied that some of its members have held onto handguns and other weapons.

The British and Irish governments will today meet Sinn Féin at talks in Hillsborough Castle focussing on a range of issues in the peace process.

The Rev Ian Paisley was challenged today to stop hiding behind rhetoric and show real political leadership by sharing power with Sinn Féin.

THE analogy drawn between Nazism and unionism by Fr Alec Reid is inaccurate only on the basis of scale.

IN my letter to you (September 24) I urged the paramount necessity of avoiding the use of the language of vilification in all conversation concerning the Green and the Orange in Ireland as a kind of way of honouring the symbolism of the Irish Tricolour.

THE Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament is being investigated by police for alleged incitement to hatred after comparing Northern Protestants to Nazis.

The Catholic priest who witnessed the completion of IRA disarmament is being investigated by police for alleged incitement to hatred after comparing the North's Protestants to Nazis, it was confirmed today.

FATHER Alec Reid, one of the churchmen who witnessed IRA decommissioning last month was at the centre of a political storm last night despite his apology for comparing unionists to Nazis.

The Catholic priest at the centre of a political storm after comparing Northern unionists to Nazis was deeply contrite, but still under fire, tonight.

Controversial comments by Father Alec Reid comparing unionists in the North to the Nazis were said in the heat of the moment, his fellow witness to IRA disarmament claimed today.

The priest who witnessed IRA decommissioning provoked fury after he compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in the North.

One of the independent church witnesses to IRA decommissioning tonight compared the unionist community to Nazis for their treatment of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

EVEN by DUP standards, Dr Ian Paisley’s refusal to accept the collective word of the head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning displays an incoherent political philosophy riddled with conspiracy theories.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams today called on the British and Irish Governments to move quickly to restore power-sharing in the wake of IRA decommissioning.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party today had talks with the clergymen whose witnessing of IRA arms decommissioning they have questioned.

More and more unionists in the North will slowly accept that the IRA has decommissioned all its arms, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams claimed today.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern explained yesterday that the Government made it clear to the Sinn Féin leadership that there had to be clarity in further discussions on such matters as decommissioning, paramilitarism, and criminality.