The Special Criminal Court has heard evidence of a incendiary bomb on a Dublin-bound passenger bus and bomb threats made during the state visit of Queen Elizabeth five years ago.

The lawyers for a Longford man accused of possessing an explosive substance on the eve of the state visit of the UK Queen five years ago have applied to the Special Criminal Court to have the charge dismissed.

A Longford man accused of making bomb threats during the state visit of the UK Queen five years ago told gardai that the British monarch stood for the security forces in Northern Ireland and that he did not like her, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A man who called Longford garda station during the State visit of the UK Queen five years ago threatened two mortars were set at Dublin Castle and that he was a member of the "Republican Brotherhood, Squad A", the Special Criminal Court has heard.

SInn Féin's Paul Donnelly has topped the poll in Dublin West by-election.

The recent election of the IRA’s former head of intelligence to a prominent position in Sinn Féin north of the border is being viewed by some as an attempt to prepare the ground for the eventual election of a southern politician to take over from Gerry Adams.

April kicks off with a day of lies and it ends with a day of honesty.

Ryle Dwyer looks at a frenzy of violence against British forces at the height of the War of Independence in Kerry, and reveals the grisly fate of two Black and Tans who went missing

Some 1,500 members of Sinn Féin will gather in Killarney this evening for the opening of the party's Árd Fheis.

The Sinn Féin TD for Dublin Central Mary Lou McDonald has indicated that the party may have discussions with like-minded newly elected independent TDs, in the effort to overtake Fianna Fáil and become the main opposition party in the Dáil.

SINN FÉIN is set to make a historic breakthrough by winning its first seat in Cork North Central, with Fianna Fáil junior minister Billy Kelleher facing a massive battle to survive.

JUNE 7, 1996, was back in the news yesterday when two IRA killers walked free from Castlerea prison.

A fire which swept through Sinn Féin offices in Co Fermanagh is being treated as suspicious, police confirmed today.

Sinn Féin members from joint policing committees throughout the country will today discuss how they can be best used to tackle crime.

ON the off-chance that Peter Molloy was actually trying to make a serious argument (Irish Examiner letters, April 11), I would like to point out the following:

Sinn Féin Dáil leader Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD has said there are "bigger resigning matters" for the Government than the current controversy over the Taoiseach’s finances.

The SDLP has welcomed confirmation that the Police Ombudsman has passed files on six special branch officers in the North, to the Public Prosecution Service.

The online auction site e-Bay has cancelled the sale of a listening device found in Sinn Féin's headquarters in Belfast last year.

A bugging device discovered at Sinn Féin's Belfast headquarters has turned up for sale on the internet.

INEVITABLY, the finger of suspicion for yesterday’s multi-million euro robbery points at the IRA but the possibility that other criminal gangs were behind the heist cannot be ruled out.

TOM HANLON secured a 14% share of first preferences and the second seat on Passage West town council with his 243 votes in the 1999 local elections.

SINN FÉIN and the Provisional movement generally are facing one of their most difficult tests ever.

SINN Féin TD Arthur Morgan said he was “seriously alarmed” at an incursion by the British Army and the Police Service of Northern Ireland into north County Louth yesterday morning.

The inquest into the death of IRA “disappeared” victim Jean McConville is to be held today more than 31 years after she was abducted.

The inquest into the death of IRA disappeared victim Jean McConville is to be delayed at the request of her family, it emerged tonight.

I WELCOME the recent announcement