Derry has been moved by many republican funerals through the decades of strife and conflict, but yesterday’s spectacle was bigger than any one tradition. 

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Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and the leader of the party in the North, Michelle O'Neill, have helped to carry the coffin of Northern Ireland former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness to his home in Derry.

Detectives in the North investigating former British Army soldiers who were involved in the Bloody Sunday shootings have sent a report to prosecutors.

A pipe bomb has been thrown at a police patrol in Derry, a senior officer said.

A former British soldier is being questioned by detectives investigating the deaths of three civil rights demonstrators in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

The first republican Speaker has been elected at the North’s Assembly.

James McClean has explained why he did not wear a poppy-embroidered shirt like the rest of his Wigan team-mates at Bolton last night.

James McClean has explained why he refused to wear a poppy-embroidered shirt like the rest of his Wigan team-mates for last night’s Championship clash at Bolton.

Up to 20 retired British soldiers face being arrested and questioned by police for murder, attempted murder or criminal injury over the Bloody Sunday shootings more than 40 years ago, it was reported today.

Saunter around Croke Park before throw-in on match day and you will invariably come across photographers and cameramen harvesting some of the tribal colour with shots of fans funnelling into GAA Headquarters.

Irish presidential hopeful Martin McGuinness today demanded the past of all his competitors in the race for the Aras be examined.

Victims of addiction helped create a garden of remembrance unveiled today in honour of those who lost their lives to drink and drugs.

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A BISHOP’S prayers were answered yesterday when direct flights were re-introduced between Cork and Belfast.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has said the findings of the inquiry into the deaths of 14 people on Bloody Sunday had vindicated the victims and would help heal the wounds of that “immense tragedy”.

Fourteen civilians killed on Bloody Sunday died as a result of "unjustifiable firing" by British soldiers, the long-awaited Saville Inquiry found today.

The Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings found the actions of British soldiers was ``both unjustified and unjustifiable'', British Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs this afternoon.

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.

Families of Bloody Sunday victims tonight welcomed the announcement that the long-awaited report into the killings would not be handed to the Government before undergoing legal checks.

A dissident republican group calling itself Republican Action Against Drugs has admitted shooting a man in Derry last week.

A 23-year-old man is recovering in hospital after he was shot in the legs during the latest in a string of paramilitary-style punishment attacks in the North.

Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims are to seek a meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward in a bid to have the report’s new publication date brought forward to avoid the run-up to an announcement for next year‘s General Election.

The Derry home of Sinn Féin Northern Ireland Assembly Member Mitchell McLaughlin has been attacked with petrol bombs.

A man in his 40s has been shot in both legs during a paramilitary-style attack in Derry.

A pipe bomb has exploded in a car in Derry, police said today.

IN preparing a timeline for the publication of 1978 State papers, I looked at the front page of the daily newspaper for every day of the year.

An 18-year-old man appeared in court today charged with the murder of pizza delivery man Emmett Shiels.

Police officers in Derry came under attack with petrol bombs last night after responding to a hoax bomb alert in the Bogside area.

Derry breathed a sign of relief tonight after an annual loyalist Apprentice Boys parade passed off without trouble.

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with the shooting of a police officer in Derry earlier this month.

More than 150 people attended a vigil in Derry last night for the American teenager raped at knifepoint over the weekend.

The North has the highest level of quashed criminal convictions in the UK, it emerged today.

Petrol bombers have attacked police during new trouble in Derry, it emerged today.

A number of people have been arrested after violence erupted following a parade by loyalists in the North.

Dissident republicans are being blamed for planting a suspicious object outside the home of a SDLP Assemblyman in Derry this morning.

A museum cataloguing the Troubles era in Derry is to open with the help of grant aid from the Government, it was confirmed today.

A police chief today said plans to stop trouble when Belfast football team Linfield and its Protestant supporters went into Derry’s republican Bogside for a high profile match against Derry City last night failed.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will reconvene today to hear from a man who allegedly admitted he was a Provisional IRA member who opened fire in Derry’s Bogside on the day British troops gunned down 13 people during a civil rights march.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal is to reconvene later this month to hear evidence from a man known as Witness X, it emerged today.

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