Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams will not be prosecuted in connection with the IRA murder of Belfast mother of 10 Jean McConville.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Political talks aimed at saving the North's crisis-hit power sharing government from collapse will take place in Belfast later.

A senior republican whose arrest over an IRA-linked murder escalated the current political crisis in Northern Ireland has accused unionists of using his “wrongful detention” to try to pull down power sharing.

EVERYONE will welcome the assurance given by senior Sinn Féin member, Bobby Storey, that the IRA has stood down, is gone off the stage and is not coming back. 

Sinn Féin has said it is “open” to the potential return of the Independent Monitoring Commission to ensure paramilitary groups no longer exist after Northern Ireland’s secretary of state said this may be the only way to resolve the current crisis.

Arlene Foster will take the reins in her first day as the sole unionist in the North's faltering powersharing government.

The future of the North’s powersharing executive hangs in the balance after unionists resigned last night and left a small window in which to heal relations between all sides.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will today meet the SDLP in a bid to prevent the collapse of the North’s power-sharing executive.

A well-known republican arrested by detectives investigating the murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville has been released pending a report to prosecutors.

There was something quite buffoonish about Bobby Storey’s boast on a platform in West Belfast with Martin McGuinness that "they haven’t gone away, you know".

Gerry Adams has been warned of a "credible" death threat, Sinn Féin has said.

The recent election of the IRA’s former head of intelligence to a prominent position in Sinn Féin north of the border is being viewed by some as an attempt to prepare the ground for the eventual election of a southern politician to take over from Gerry Adams.

Dissident republicans were tonight blamed for vandalising a car owned by leading Sinn Féin member and former IRA prisoner Bobby Storey.

The family of a teenager murdered and secretly buried by the IRA almost 30 years ago gathered for his funeral in Belfast today.

A tense armed forces homecoming parade passed off without incident in Belfast today where police mounted a huge security operation to keep apart thousands of loyalist supporters and republican protestors.

A senior IRA figure has been appointed as head of Sinn Féin's operations in Belfast in a move apparently designed to show that the IRA's structures are being dismantled.

THE killer of Robert McCartney was one of Sinn Féin’s official treasurers while the man who ordered the killing is frequently seen with leading IRA members in Belfast, the European Parliament was told last night.

Sinn Féin has blamed loyalist paramilitaries for attempting to send more than 10 envelopes containing bullets to Sinn Féin representatives.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds provoked outrage last night after lavishing praise on the man who helped direct the IRA's 30-year campaign of bloodshed across Britain and Ireland.

Northern parties are criticising the handling of an Orange parade in north Belfast last night.

SINN FÉIN has stood over its controversial 20th anniversary celebration of the Maze breakout despite strong condemnation of the event from political parties North and South.

Elements within the security forces are trying to undermine the peace process by alleging that republicans were behind last month’s break-in at a top security Belfast police station, it was claimed today.

Detectives investigating the raid on Special Branch offices at Northern Ireland’s most secure police station have extended their inquiries to the United States, it was confirmed this evening.

Five of the six people who were arrested in connection with the break-in at Castlereagh police station during St Patrick’s weekend have now been released.

Detectives were today questioning six people over a raid on Northern Ireland’s highest-security police station including a civilian who worked there.