The four people that Maíria Cahill accused of subjecting her to a "kangaroo court" over her claims that she was raped by a IRA member have refused to meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Three cases linked to alleged rape of a Belfast woman and subsequent IRA cover-up are to be reviewed by a top human rights lawyer, the Public Prosecution Service has said.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claims the case of Belfast woman Mairia Cahill has been unfairly politicised.

Three criminal cases linked to the alleged rape of a Belfast woman who insists the republican movement covered up her claims are to be independently reviewed, the Public Prosecution Service has announced.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has admitted the IRA "failed" sex abuse victims as the controversy over Mairia Cahill’s rape allegations continued to convulse the party.

Ireland’s longest-serving political leader may have reached his Monica Lewinsky moment.

A woman who claims the IRA tried to force her to keep quiet about a rape allegation against a west Belfast member of the republican group said she is being "put through further trauma today" by Sinn Féin.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has again rejected Mairia Cahill's claims he met with her over an allegation she was sexually assaulted and raped by a leading republican.

Sinn Féin’s Deputy President Mary Lou McDonald has said she will meet Gerry Adams later to discuss allegations made in a BBC TV programme.

You could, if you wish, remember Albert Reynolds as the man who wrecked two governments. Or you could remember him as the man who built the peace process.

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A Boston policeman found himself on something of a busman’s holiday as he chased and detained a man who allegedly threw a brick at a passing car and head-butted a man working at a restaurant in Cork City.

During the first half of the last century, 163 people were officially executed throughout the island — 149 in the 26 counties, and 14 in the North.

Kilworth are the first team into the Cork IHC semi-finals after easily beating Fermoy in Ballygiblin last evening.

DESPITE playing his third big game in seven days, Aidan Walsh inspired Kanturk to a quarter-final slot in the IHC at Milford on Saturday.

AFTER a career spanning 40 years which included involvement in the seizure of the gun-running ship Claudia, one of the naval service’s most experienced sailors has made his last voyage.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was under further pressure today after fresh claims he covered up sex abuse allegations against fellow republicans – one of them an elected member of his party.

SO how was it for you? Good, bad or indifferent? It can’t have been that bad, I guess: you’re reading this so that means you got through to the end. What am I banging on about? The first decade of the 21st century, of course. It’s hard to believe it’s in its dying days: I can still remember the hangover from what we learned to call “millennium night”. But time speeds up as we get older, I’m finding.

THE 60-year-old man accused of money-laundering told garda’ he was never in the IRA but told detectives he knew the leader of the IRA and once sent him a Christmas card.

The 60-year-old man accused of money-laundering told gardaí he was never in the IRA but he told detectives he knew “the leader of the IRA” and once sent him a Christmas card.

President Eamon de Valera accepted gifts from Colonel Gaddafi the same year Libya began arming the IRA, official state papers reveal.

Sinn Féin is bussing more than 100 activists from Belfast to Dublin today, to mark the 26th anniversary of the death of hunger striker Bobby Sands.

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The death on hunger strike of Frank Stagg caused a major crisis for the then government, writes Caroline O’Doherty.

THREE students from Athlone Institute of Technology are being treated for serious injuries after they were struck by a car in Athlone, Co Westmeath, early yesterday.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds yesterday revealed he held secret talks with loyalists in their Belfast heartland 10 years ago to secure their ceasefire.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds held secret talks with loyalists in their Belfast heartland 10 years ago to secure their ceasefire, he said tonight.

THE blinkered and cynical views expressed by Danny Morrison (Irish Examiner, August 11), if shared by the wider republican movement, do not bode well for the chances of a successful outcome to the review of the Good Friday agreement.

THE belligerent and bare-faced equivocation of Danny Morrison and other Sinn Féin spin doctors, since Section 31 became inoperable, has now become part of the political landscape.

FOR most of his life a senior IRA figure, Joe Cahill was Sinn Féin vice-president when he died last Friday, aged 84.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds provoked outrage last night after lavishing praise on the man who helped direct the IRA's 30-year campaign of bloodshed across Britain and Ireland.

Tony Blair has been warned that elements within his own system are encouraging a backward slide in the Northern Ireland peace process, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams claimed today.

Thousands of mourners are attending the funeral of former IRA chief-of-staff Joe Cahill in Belfast this morning.

Veteran republican Joe Cahill will rank alongside some of the greatest names in Irish nationalism, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness claimed today.

Veteran Republican Joe Cahill has died in Belfast.

Sinn Féin adopted a positive and conciliatory tone at its árd fheis over the weekend, holding out the prospect of coming to some kind of arrangement with other parties in a bid to continue the work of implementing the Good Friday Agreement.

DESPITE the lack of a hard-and-fast deal so far from the intense round of negotiations in the North, hopes are strong that an agreement involving an IRA decision to take the gun of out of Irish politics once and for all will be brokered within weeks.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern and British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s latest bid to restore devolution and secure the Provisionals’ disarmament will intensify today during the second day of crucial talks at Hillsborough Castle, which could result in the restoration of the North’s power-sharing executive.

IN THE foreword to Joe Cahill: A Life in the IRA (O’Brien Press, 25), Brendan Anderson explains that Cahill, a former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, spoke to him “frankly about those things that he is free to speak about”.

A specially convened meeting of Sinn Fein members was held tonight to assess the fall-out from IRA decommissioning among "troubled" grass-roots republicans.

Former IRA chief of staff Sean MacStiofan is due to be buried in Co Meath shortly.