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Gerry Adams is facing pressure to own up about his links with the IRA and to make a public declaration about his involvement with the paramilitary organisation.

The €200,000 found hidden in the bathroom of the former mansion of Priory Hall developer and IRA hunger striker Tom McFeely will be handed over to bankruptcy officials in a matter of days.

Two years ago, Sam Allardyce, now manager of West Ham, felt the need to get something off his chest.

WHEN Mark Thatcher went missing in the Sahara while taking part in an international motor race in Jan 1982, his ashen-faced mother, upset and distressed, appeared on television close to breaking down.

Two former paramilitary prisoners, one UVF and the other INLA, are in Co Cork tomorrow as part of a human rights project.

THIS one-man show written and performed by Tony Devlin of Brassneck Theatre Company is about the 1981 hunger strikes in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in which 10 republican men died in their struggle for political status.

KEVIN LYNCH’S mother sent a poignant letter and Mass card to late taoiseach Charles Haughey warning that her son and others would die on hunger strike.

SCOTTISH Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill yesterday decided to release Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 57-year-old Libyan national and former intelligence agent who was sentenced to a 27-year term in 2001 for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, in which 270 people, the majority of them Americans, died.

Business leaders today told the North's First Minister Peter Robinson that the Executive must act to tackle the growing economic crisis.

HUNDREDS of former IRA prisoners are to attempt to have their convictions overturned and claim compensation.

Hundreds of former IRA prisoners are to attempt to have their convictions overturned and claim compensation, it was revealed today.

An international stenography company employed by An tSeirbhis Chuirte was criticised at the Central Criminal Court today by Mr Justice Paul Carney who said it should apologise to prisoners awaiting sentence.

Plans for a £240m (€313m) multi-sports stadium project at the site of the former Maze prison is unlikely to get government go ahead, it emerged today.

Northern Sports Minister Edwin Poots will face tough questions at Stormont today over plans to build a £240m (€318.9m) stadium project at the former Maze paramilitary prison.

A £240m (€318m) multi-sports stadium project for the North should be built at the former Maze prison, a leaked consultants' report revealed today.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams led tributes to Brendan ‘the Dark’ Hughes, once one of Belfast’s most feared IRA gunmen, who died over the weekend.

An escape tunnel discovered on the site of the North's infamous Maze Prison may have been dug by loyalist paramilitaries 30 years ago, it was claimed tonight.

It was a wild night indeed for Van Morrison in LA last night when he was presented with an award for his contribution to film by Al Pacino.

THE passing of David Ervine, leader of the Progressive Unionist Party, leaves a vacuum in loyalist politics that will be hard to fill.

Work started today to demolish the infamous Maze Prison in the North.

WHAT a field day British politicians are having, lambasting the US authorities for their detention camp in Guantanamo Bay.

The criminal records of people who served jail sentences in Northern Ireland for terrorist offences should be cleared, Sinn Féin delegates demanded at their annual conference in Dublin today.