Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey did not want the bodies of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar to be taken home through Dublin, archived British papers disclosed.

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

A brother of an IRA woman shot dead by British Special Forces in Gibraltar appeared in court today charged with a bomb attack in the North.

The Northern Assembly’s governing body launched a fresh effort today to make a decision on whether to ban a controversial Stormont memorial for an IRA woman shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar.

THE headstone of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was shattered by vandals who desecrated the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast, it emerged last night.