Going abroad to solve Ireland’s policing problems is easier said than done.

Going abroad to solve Ireland’s policing problems is easier said than done, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

The Independence Alliance considered pulling out of Government over the way in which the Taoiseach and other government ministers have handled the Maurice McCabe scandal.

Gary Daly beat Christy Mullins by over a bowl in the Kelleher-Hurley Cup at Drimoleague.

The Government was criticised for failing to publicly endorse its own expert report on alcohol.

Victims of addiction helped create a garden of remembrance unveiled today in honour of those who lost their lives to drink and drugs.

The British government, Sinn Féin and the DUP are all failing the victims of the North's decades of violence, it was claimed today.

A priest suspected of involvement in the Claudy bombing met a former deputy chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, it was revealed today.

A team of detectives established to probe conflict murders in the North is incapable of meeting the needs of all victims, the North's Justice Minister said today.

THE British Government has not grasped the thorny issue of the North’s violent past, one of the main drivers behind the peace process has said.

Proposals to deal with the legacy of the Troubles were today rejected by Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Peter Robinson.

A future Conservative Party government in the UK that does not deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles risks fresh violence in the region, a leading commentator warned today.

Republicans should cooperate with any future Truth Commission on the Troubles, Sinn Féin said today.

Proposals to control the amount of information available to families bereaved during the North's conflict are playing God with the interests of justice, a human rights group has claimed.

A major security operation is moving into place to protect dozens of senior British and Irish politicians meeting at a lakeside hotel in Co Donegal next week.

A group addressing the legacy of the Troubles in the North has made a direct public appeal today for the IRA to co-operate with its work.

The men appointed by the British government to recommend ways of addressing the legacy of the Troubles in the North are due to appear before an Oireachtas committee in Dublin today.

The legacy of the Troubles can only be settled if justice is delivered in controversial murders such as the killing of solicitor Pat Finucane, his widow said today.

Controversial plans to deal with the legacy of the Troubles are to be examined by a group of Westminster MPs, it was announced today.

Politicians in the North are to debate controversial proposals to give the families of everyone killed during the Troubles £12,000 (€13,255), it was announced tonight.

THE North’s political parties were last night challenged to back unprecedented proposals aimed at healing the sectarian wounds left after decades of violence.

The North’s political parties were challenged tonight to back unprecedented proposals aimed at healing the sectarian wounds left after decades of violence.

Groups involved in the North's Troubles could apologise for their role and pledge never to use violence again as part of an ambitious five-year reconciliation plan unveiled today.

The two men who headed a group on dealing with the legacy of the North's Troubles today hit back at critics of their proposal to pay the families of victims £12,000 (€12,911).

Proposals to pay compensation to all those killed during the conflict in the North are grossly offensive and will foment community division, the First Minister said today.

Proposals to pay compensation to all victims of the North's conflict are a distraction, a nationalist victims’ campaigner said today.

Former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today denounced as “offensive” a proposal to offer financial compensation to the family of every person killed in the North's Troubles.

A major report on how to deal with the legacy of the North’s Troubles is to be released this month, it emerged today.

People guilty of crimes linked to the Troubles will not be handed an automatic amnesty in any reconciliation process, a group dealing with the legacy of violence said today.

The group considering how to deal with the legacy of the North's Troubles will today reveal their plans to British and Irish politicians behind closed doors.

British and Irish members of parliament will tomorrow be briefed on what is being described as an effective truth commission on the North's Troubles.

A forum of politicians is to call on the British government to release secret files on the Real IRA suspects behind the Omagh bombing.

President Mary McAleese has paid tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari for his work in verifying that IRA arms were put beyond use.

An independent and international truth commission is the best way to deal with the North's bloody past, Gerry Adams said today.

A security force cover-up of a loyalist pub bombing that killed 15 people in 1971 is to be raised at Westminster in the UK tomorrow.

You can’t deny the state — British or Irish — the exclusive right to use legitimate force and, at the same time, hold it to a higher standard than paramilitaries.

Relatives of 11 people killed by the British army in disputed circumstances today appealed for TDs to support their campaign for an independent inquiry.

Sufferers from the Northern Ireland conflict should receive pension-style payouts, a former victims’ commissioner said today.

The panel set up to deal with the North’s troubled past is hopelessly divided, the DUP claimed today.

Victims of collusion-linked atrocities during the Troubles will today be granted a long-awaited debate in the Dáil.

The joint chairman of the British government appointed panel looking into how to settle the legacy of the Northern conflict have said they will publish their report.

A truth commission to examine the bloody legacy of the Troubles in the North must not follow South Africa’s ’confrontational’ model, victims’ groups said today.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to hold talks today with the body set up by the British Government to decide on the best way to address the legacy of the troubles in the North.

IN the 1970s, the SDLP embarked on a journey of both hope and necessity to try and change the face of politics on the North and on this island.