Britain’s Prince of Wales begins an emotional trip to the west of Ireland today where his great-uncle Louis Mountbatten was assassinated by the IRA.

A rescuer who pulled bodies from the water following Lord Mountbatten’s assassination has said the murder site should be known for the joy it brought the royals, not just the horror.

IT seems pointless, and probably wrong too, to try to establish a hierarchy of atrocity inflicted on this small island during the three decades of terror that preceded the Good Friday peace agreement.

Fans at the Britannia Stadium won't be seeing any more aerial bombardments after Rory Delap was released by Stoke today.

Martin McGuinness and Sinn Féin sources have dismissed suggestions that the IRA is preparing to make an unequivocal apology to victims of the troubles, including the North’s security forces.

Martin McGuinness told the Queen that he recognised she suffered loss in the Troubles, when they met this week in Belfast.

While it has been claimed that Queen Elizabeth is not “in the business of doing deals”, she is being widely credited with clinching the historic meeting with Sinn Féin.

A GAA club has denied that any of its mentors or spectators struck an opposition player during an U-16 match which had to be abandoned due to violence.

THE day Earl Mountbatten of Burma died was “one of the darkest days in modern Irish history” and a day of shame, a 30th anniversary memorial service in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, was told yesterday.

YESTERDAY we marked the 30th anniversary of one of the very darkest days in the North’s Troubles.

A BOY whose clothes caught fire had a miraculous escape after the flames spread to an oil tank and an electricity station knocking out power in 1,000 homes.

Today is the 25th anniversary of one of the bloodiest days of the Northern Troubles.

More than 200 people have completed a college course in stewarding loyalist band parades, it emerged today.