The entire top leadership of an outlawed Basque political party linked to Spanish terrorist group ETA have been arrested in a police raid.

Spanish prosecutors filed a lawsuit against a new Basque party with the Supreme Court today, calling it a successor of Batasuna – already banned for links to armed separatist group Eta.

The pre-election party conference season continues today with the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in Dublin.

New proposals to help first-time home buyers get on the property ladder will be unveiled by Sinn Féin at its Ard Fheis this weekend, it emerged tonight.

The North’s Assembly Election campaign will today go up several gears as candidates lodge their nomination papers for the March 7 poll.

A powerful car bomb exploded at Madrid’s international airport today, injuring 26 people and leaving two missing in an attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA.

A ceasefire that ended nearly four decades of bombings and assasinations by Basque separatist group ETA came into force today, ushering in a new era of hope for Spain.

The Spanish Government was urged by Gerry Adams today to respond creatively and positively to Basque separatist group Eta’s ceasefire declaration.

SPAIN’S Supreme Court sentenced radical leader Arnaldo Otegi to a year in prison yesterday for slandering King Juan Carlos by saying he was in charge of torturers.

Riot police firing rubber pellets clashed with Basque separatist protesters who set rubbish bins ablaze yesterday, after a banned rally in the northern Spanish city of San Sebastian.

The Basque region’s most prominent pro-independence militant was indicted today on charges of belonging to the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

A leading Basque separatist said today the Spanish government’s carrot and stick approach to the troubled region would not bring peace.

The head of an outlawed pro-independence Basque party who was released yesterday from a Madrid jail on bail has said that his imprisonment would not affect peace efforts in the northern troubled Basque region.

THE leader of a banned Basque pro-independence party has been remanded in custody on suspicion of being a leader of the armed separatist group ETA.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams today condemned the imprisonment in Spain of a Basque politician on suspicion of being a leader of terrorist group, ETA.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams suggested today an Irish priest should mediate in the Spanish government’s conflict with Basque terrorists.

The Spanish government has rejected a new proposal from Basque militants for dialogue to end the region’s long-running conflict, saying today it lacked an explicit renunciation of violence.

Millions of Spaniards took to the streets, chanting “Cowards” and “Assassins” in a protest against the Madrid bombings that killed 199 people.

Daily life ground to a halt across Spain today as the grieving nation observed a period of solemn silence to honour the 198 people killed in the Madrid train massacre

The ISEQ index was down 1.5% on Thursday following the terrorist bomb attack in Madrid today.

Hundreds of supporters of Basque nationalists barred from running in an upcoming election staged an unauthorised rally today and said Spain was not a democracy.

A political row has broken out in Spain following the selection of their contestant for the Eurovision Song Contest.