HE lights dim and the audience is hushed. Former middleweight contender Bobby Cassidy is led to the front of the stage.

THE families of some of the victims of Bloody Sunday have met with the Taoiseach to urge him to help bring those responsible for the deaths through the courts.

Protestant church leaders were warmly applauded into Derry’s nationalist Bogside today in a historic gesture they hope will help bridge the city’s traditional divide.

Families of the Bloody Sunday dead today entered Londonderry's Guildhall to read the Saville report they hope will exonerate their loved ones.

Families of the Bloody Sunday dead hope today their epic campaign to clear the names of their loved ones will finally end with the release of the long-awaited Saville Report.

A sister of one of the Bloody Sunday dead will grip the bloodstained handkerchief waved on the day as she is handed the long-awaited report into the killings, she revealed today.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will resume in Derry today to hear the closing speech by counsel to the inquiry Christopher Clarke QC.

The leader of the Official IRA on Bloody Sunday has pulled out of giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry because of illness.

Three former IRA men who have agreed to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal were granted anonymity today.

The former Bishop of Derry was fired at by a soldier as he ran to the aid of a fatally wounded teenager on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry has heard.

An horrific account of soldiers dumping blooded bodies, some still moving, into the back of an Army vehicle after the shooting on Bloody Sunday was given to the Saville Inquiry in Derry today.

A man told today how he believed the Army was firing rubber bullets on Bloody Sunday, until he saw a youth lying dead that day.

A youth who spotted an Official IRA gunman on Bloody Sunday was going to throttle the would-be assailant, the Saville Inquiry has been told.

The inquiry heard evidence from a man who said he pushed one of the Bloody Sunday wounded into open ground seconds before she was shot.

One of the youths shot dead on Bloody Sunday pleaded with people to back off from a confrontation with troops earlier that day, the inquiry into the killings heard today.

British troops assaulted a paramedic who had been tending to victims of the Bloody Sunday shootings three times, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

There was no threat to British army paratroopers immediately before they opened fire on unarmed demonstrators on Bloody Sunday, former Bishop of Derry Edward Daly has told the Saville Inquiry.

Former Bishop of Derry, Edward Daly, is to testify before the Bloody Sunday inquiry today.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal in Derry has been hearing evidence from a man who said the British army tried to kill him.