A DUP MP has said many senior IRA members could be implicated after a court agreed to hand over top secret interviews with a convicted Old Bailey car bomber to the authorities.

BEING saddled with the slogan “West Brits Out” was not the best start to Martin McGuinness’s presidential push.

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan.

GERRY Adams, who previously said he was proud of an organisation that murdered 1,700 people during the Troubles, has likened the Universal Social Charge to an “act of gross terrorism”.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams says he is “proud” of the IRA and his “association” with it.

DESPITE the allegations about his involvement in the abduction, murder and disappearance of Jean McConville, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has steadfastly denied any connection to the case.

IN December 1972 Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow with 10 children, was abducted, murdered and dumped in an unamrked grave by the Provisional IRA.

One of Jean McConville's 10 children is take legal action against Gerry Adams over her mother's disappearance and death.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today denied renewed allegations he was once an IRA leader after claims were made in the posthumous memoirs of a dead former colleague.

SO Martin McGuinness, senior IRA figure, now Sinn Féin’s deputy first minister in the Northern Assembly, felt confident enough on Tuesday to suggest Cardinal Seán Brady should be “considering his position”.

IT WAS difficult to stomach some of the more generous tributes paid to Ian Paisley early last week after he announced his impending retirement, but the balance had certainly been restored by last weekend.

DOUBLE Booker Prize winner JM Coetzee will be among the literary luminaries attending Listowel Writers’ Week from May 31 to June 4 next.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday apologised to the family of Seamus Ludlow for the State’s handling of his murder investigation.

Gardaí may have covered-up the murder of a Dundalk forestry worker 30 years ago because of his killers’ links with British military intelligence, an Oireachtas committee heard today.

IN the wake of the Northern Bank heist in December, PSNI officers predicted the culprits would have immense difficulty laundering the money because of the make-up of the notes and the large sum involved.

John Alderdice, former speaker in the Northern Ireland Assembly, today won a court victory over newspaper allegations that he abandoned his post during a developing crisis in the peace process to buy a holiday home in France.

Sinn Féin is coming under increased pressure to get off the fence, says Political Editor Harry McGee.

A priest at the centre of the peace process has denied claims in a new book that he was involved in secret talks between the IRA and the British government in 1986.

The author of a new book about the IRA today stood by his claims about Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’s alleged links with the terrorist organisation.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams today denied fresh allegations that he was a senior member of the IRA.

The IRA came within a whisker of assassinating Geoffrey Howe when he was British Foreign Secretary, according to a book published today.