THE US Justice Department has said it will not oppose an application to postpone the handing over of interviews with former republican paramilitaries to the PSNI.

DESPITE the coverage during the week, the Priory Hall scandal isn’t new.

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan.

A Sinn Féin Assemblyman quit today amid heightening tensions inside the party over policing.

TOTAL IRA disarmament is a mirage, it was claimed yesterday.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams yesterday expressed his regrets about the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings and the huge loss of life and injuries they inflicted.

The British army’s top agent inside the IRA was in hiding today after his cover was blown in an exposure that rocked the republican movement to its core.

THE IRA could be destroyed by revelations its former security chief was a leading British agent, a former member of the organisation claimed last night.

A 40-year-old man, who "couldn’t accept" the break-up of his homosexual relationship, was stabbed to death by his partner following a row, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

The IRA is planning to commemorate the work of terrorists in the 'war' against the British.

As Gerry Adams admitted in London today, republicans will agonise long and hard over the IRA decommissioning. They will feel real, emotional pain.