A loyalist who killed three men during a gun and grenade attack at an IRA funeral in West Belfast must serve out the remainder of of his minimum 30-year jail sentence, it was disclosed.

An envelope containing a key document which helped trigger the peace process in the North was smeared with the blood of two soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast, a new TV documentary reveals tonight.

Gerry Adams will not attend the funeral of Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price, it was confirmed today.

Graveyards for unbaptised children are scattered throughout Ireland. Now, towns and villages are reclaiming these lonely and forgotten burial places writes Carl Dixon

On the 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker is still regarded as a hero of republicanism, says Peter Geoghegan.

The funeral of one of the so-called disappeared has taken place in Belfast.

Body remains recovered from a beach in the North were that of an IRA murder victim secretly buried after going missing nearly 40 years ago, the authorities confirmed today.

A brother of an IRA woman shot dead by British Special Forces in Gibraltar appeared in court today charged with a bomb attack in the North.

Police in the North are investigating the desecration of republican graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast.

The Catholic Church in the North has apologised for selling land to a wildlife trust where hundreds of dead babies were buried.

A dig by police in a wildlife sanctuary close to a west Belfast cemetery, launched amid concerns that human remains were buried there, was called off today.

A notorious loyalist killer who tried to kill senior Sinn Féin members in a one-man attack on the Northern Ireland Assembly will today find if he is to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

MICHAEL Stone was born on April 2, 1955, in Birmingham His mother left his father when he was five months old and he went to live with his father’s sister in Ballyhalbert, Co Down.

A verdict in the trial of a notorious loyalist killer accused of attempting to murder Sinn Féin leaders at the North's parliament will be delivered today.

Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone came within inches of assassinating former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, a court heard today.

Unedited video footage of loyalist killer Michael Stone launching his alleged murder bid against senior Sinn Féin members inside the Northern Ireland Assembly was played at his trial in Belfast today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone is due to go on trial today charged with attempting to murder Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness carried the coffin of a veteran republican at his funeral in the North yesterday.

Unionism has crossed a rubicon following the engagement between the Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams at Stormont, a senior Sinn Fein figure claimed today.

Police hunting the murderers of two men in Belfast have recovered four guns, they said today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone’s former paramilitary bosses must bear some of the blame for his bomb attack on Stormont, it was claimed today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone’s former paramilitary associates had no advance warning of his attempted bomb attack on Stormont, they claimed tonight.

STORM isn’t a verb that’s usually applied in relation to just one individual. But when loyalist killer Michael Stone stormed Stormont last night, there was a grisly precedent.

DRAWN into militant loyalism from an early age, Michael Stone, 50, joined the infamous loyalist Tartan Gang at the age of 13 and by the age of 16 he had already been held in Belfast’s Crumlin Road jail for possession of firearms and membership of the Ulster Defence Association.

PANTOMIME season is in full swing and clearly this year’s most spectacular (and longest running) show was the one that opened in Stormont yesterday.

Michael Stone is suffering from crippling arthritis and was on medication when he launched his attack at Stormont, friends claimed today.

The funeral of Sinn Féin Assembly member Michael Ferguson will take place today in west Belfast.

The North's most infamous courthouse could be reopened as a luxury hotel.

DERMOT HACKETT was 37 years of age when, on May 23, 1987, he was gunned down as he drove his bread van along the Omagh to Drumquin road. He was hit by 15 bullets from a sub machine gun and was killed instantly.

The loyalist paramilitary killer Michael Stone has been released from police custody, it was confirmed tonight.

Milltown Cemetery killer Michael Stone has been questioned about plots to murder prominent political figures during the 1980s, it emerged today.

Work got underway today to dismantle one of Belfast’s best known police stations.

FORMER Taoiseach Albert Reynolds provoked outrage last night after lavishing praise on the man who helped direct the IRA's 30-year campaign of bloodshed across Britain and Ireland.

Thousands of mourners are attending the funeral of former IRA chief-of-staff Joe Cahill in Belfast this morning.

A decision will be taken today on whether to close down one of the most prominent police stations in the heart of republican West Belfast.

A MAN who served nine years in jail for his part in the deaths of two British soldiers during a funeral for an IRA member is fighting deportation from the US.

THE headstone of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands was shattered by vandals who desecrated the republican plot in Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast, it emerged last night.

Sinn Féin says volunteer workers clearing up the vandalised republican plot in Milltown cemetery, west Belfast, have discovered a pipe bomb.

A plot containing the grave of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands has been damaged in an overnight attack by vandals in a west Belfast cemetery.

A daughter of IRA murder victim Jean McConville has changed her mind about plans to boycott her mother’s funeral.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has denied reports republicans are pressuring Jean McConville's family not to have the murdered woman's funeral procession on Belfast's Falls Road.

The families of three men shot dead by a loyalist murderer at the an IRA Belfast funeral are planning legal action against the Ministry of Defence and police in Northern Ireland, they announced tonight.

FRESH claims that the RUC colluded in a triple murder at a Belfast graveyard have sparked further calls for a full public inquiry into the North’s dirty war.

The latest revelations of murder and collusion to emanate from Northern Ireland will hardly challenge the public’s readiness to believe, coming as they do in the aftermath of the Stevens Inquiry and the disclosures about “Stakeknife” this week.