In the past few weeks, a number of reports have appeared in print and electronic media which have conveyed a misleading view of the proposals on dealing with the past contained in the Stormont House Agreement (SHA). Some of these have focused on the Independent Commission for Information Retrieval (ICIR), or on the Implementation and Reconciliation Group (IRG), which are two of four mechanisms proposed in the agreement.

Legal opinion in the North is divided over whether Irish Republican songs will be banned by new British legislation on glorifying terrorism.

Paramilitary songs and murals could be outlawed by the British government's new anti-terrorism laws, according to legal experts in the North.