Redrawing the North's border would be a “fatal mistake”, ex-Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald privately warned Margaret Thatcher, secret files have revealed.

Margaret Thatcher voiced concern that a 1989 report into the Hillsborough disaster constituted a “devastating criticism” of police, previously-unpublished Cabinet papers revealed today.

Former UN peacekeeper Col Colm Doyle says investigative journalist Ed Vulliamy’s anger is palpable in his remarkable book on the Bosnian conflict

TONY BLAIR has agreed this week to move British forces closer to trouble spots near Baghdad so that George W Bush would not have to commit more US troops to Iraq in the closing days of his re-election campaign.

By Noel Whelan IN 1997 the former British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, now Lord Hurd, made a series of TV documentaries for the BBC called 'The Search for Peace.'