The Government is to provide an extra €1m in an effort to curb binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

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In his letter (Aug 26) Desmond FitzGerald completely ignores the causes of the Northern conflict and states that “the only people who think that the Maze prisoners acted with the support of the community are themselves and their apologists”.

Former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald personally pleaded with US president Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher for an urgent compromise over the Maze hunger strikes, according to state papers.

Traders along the border are seeking to boost business as customers flock from the North to enjoy the strongest sterling exchange rates seen for years.

Garret FitzGerald warned Margaret Thatcher that Ireland could be forced to cut off security ties with the British at the height of the Maze hunger strikes.

Ex-taoiseach Garret FitzGerald personally pleaded with US president Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher for an urgent compromise over the Maze hunger strikes.

GARRET FITZGERALD warned Margaret Thatcher that Ireland could be forced to cut off security ties with the British at the height of the Maze hunger strikes.

FORMER taoiseach Garret FitzGerald personally pleaded with US president Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher for an urgent compromise over the Maze hunger strikes.

The 1981 hunger strike resulted in a showdown between Margaret Thatcher and Ireland’s politicians, but ultimately in the deaths of 10 prisoners, writes Ryle Dwyer

The family of a man murdered by the Real IRA in Derry have been told the MI5 did not play a role in his death.

Police in the North have renewed an appeal for information about the murder of a man in Derry last year.

Relatives of a dissident republican who claim MI5 has information on his brutal murder are to meet the Government's key security service adviser, it was confirmed last night.

Fears of an escalation in dissident republican terrorist attacks heightened tonight after a car bomb wrecked buildings near the centre of Derry.

A priest in the North is to meet supporters of dissident republicans who claim their families are being harassed by the PSNI.

The upsurge in dissident republican violence will not derail political progress in the North, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness vowed today.

An explosive device was fired at a police station in the North tonight.

A man shot dead by the Real IRA in the North was not an informer or drug dealer, his family insisted tonight.

The main republican plot at Belfast's Milltown Cemetery has been desecrated in an overnight attack.

Singletons SuperValu Donoughmore are the 2007 Senior Women National Cup Champions after a master class display against Sligo All-Stars at the National Basketball Arena this afternoon.

SINN FÉIN'S current electoral strength was in no small measure helped by 10 republican hunger strikers who died in the Maze Prison 25 years ago, party leader Gerry Adams acknowledged yesterday.

I WOULD request readers to light a candle in memory of men who measured up to the mantle of 1916.

NEXT Saturday, almost a decade since the lifting of Section 31 which banned Sinn Féin deputies from the airwaves, the proceedings of the party's Árd Fheis will be carried live on national television.

STAY away from the drink and cigarettes if you want to get to the top, a leading entrepreneur advised as he presented awards to school students yesterday.

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Republican hunger strikers 20 years ago raised their movement’s struggle against the British presence to a "moral threshold", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.