The Tánaiste, Mary Harney, has warned Sinn Féin that it must recognise that the IRA murder of Jean McConville was a crime.

THANK goodness for the internet. The ability to access media archives on the internet may yet prove to be the most useful tool to protect the truth from Sinn Féin spin and denial.

The country’s biggest Garda union today hit out at broadcaster Eamon Dunphy over controversial comments he made on his radio show that gardaí were corrupt.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern last night expressed confidence that a historic breakthrough can still be achieved that would see the Democratic Unionist Party sharing power with Sinn Féin in restored institutions in the North.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday rowed back publicly from the views expressed by Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern that it was only a “matter of time” before Sinn Féin would be considered as suitable coalition partners for Fianna Fáil.

The bid to save the Good Friday Agreement cranked up a notch today after hints that a deal to disband the IRA was still possible.

Sinn Féin Chairman Mitchell McLaughlin today said that the DUP must abandon what he labelled their "anti-Agreement" position, and make progress based on the principles of the Good Friday Agreement.

Sinn Féin chairman Mitchell McLaughlin says the DUP must "respect Sinn Féin's mandate" and concentrate on agreeing a package that will quickly see the political institutions re-established in the North.

The political battle for the next general election has already begun, the Labour party warned today.

Sinn Féin chairman Mitchell McLaughlin claimed today it was unacceptable to allow Unionists to set the pace for the peace process.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell and his government have underestimated the public by rushing a referendum campaign on citizenship, Sinn Féin claimed yesterday.

Sinn Féin has branded tighter fundraising regulations proposed for Northern Ireland as both “ludicrous and an attack on the democratic process”.

Sinn Féin does not have to pass any “special tests” to prove its commitment to peace, the party’s president Gerry Adams said today.

Sinn Féin today warned that Northern Ireland’s peace process would collapse if the UK government gave in to demands to expel it from talks to restore devolution.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will hold talks with delegations from Sinn Féin and the SDLP this afternoon.

Sinn Féin’s chairman Mitchell McLaughlin has said he believes the British government is on the verge of calling fresh elections in the North.

The Chairman of Sinn Fein, Mitchell McLaughlin, has said attacks on police board members are cowardly and despicable.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams is confident his party can win one of Northern Ireland's three European parliament seats next year.

Sinn Féin is calling on the Government to apply as much political pressure on the British government as possible to announce a date for the Northern assembly elections.

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Sinn Fein chairman Mitchell McLaughlin has said he believes the peace process will eventually remove weapons from Northern Ireland politics.

Sinn Fein's Mitchell McLaughlin is calling on the Ulster Unionist Party to come clean on their strategy to stop the May assembly elections going ahead.

Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists are split over whether they should deal with Sinn Fein, a rival claimed today.

Sinn Féin chairman Mitchell McLaughlin has admitted the current problems with the peace process could be used by dissidents to gain support within republicanism.

Lives will be lost unless the violence in east Belfast ends, the British government was warned tonight.

Loyalist claims that republicans are masterminding street disorder to boost their vote in next year’s Assembly elections are laughable, a senior Sinn Fein figure claimed tonight.

Sinn Fein is calling on other political parties to respect the result of the Nice Treaty.

Sinn Fein’s Mitchell McLaughlin has welcomed David Trimble’s call for a poll on a united Ireland to be held alongside the assembly elections.

Sinn Fein will debate the recent terrorist attacks in the United States at their annual Ard Fheis which takes place in Dublin this weekend.

Sinn Fein has rejected unionist calls for a review of the IRA ceasefire in the wake of reports of bursts of machine gunfire in north Belfast last night.

Sinn Fein Chairperson Mitchell McLaughlin said he was not surprised by reports that rival unionist leaders David Trimble and Ian Paisley are in contact over the proposed police reforms.

Sinn Fein is to meet with the British Government tomorrow for the first time since the political institutions were suspended.

Sinn Fein says the new British plan for policing in the North does not go far enough.

Sinn Fein has confirmed that some of the three suspected republicans detained in Colombia are known to the party, but has insisted that there is no basis for concluding the arrests have any bearing on the peace process.

There is growing opposition to the Apprentice Boys march on the Lower Ormeau

The Sinn Fein chairman Mitchell McLaughlin has declined to criticise comments made on Sunday by leading republican Brian Keenan.