Controversy over compensation for Gerry Adams does nothing to deliver truth and justice to Troubles victims
Gerry Adams’ compensation for past unlawful detention is largely a red herring. Getting information from the IRA and ...
Omagh bombing: why a public inquiry is being held more than 25 years after the atrocity
There remain questions about how authorities in both Ireland and the UK handled the events around the 1998 bombing that ...
Legacy Act prevented ‘landing zone’ being reached for Troubles victims – Harris
The 2023 legislation, introduced by the Tories, halted scores of civil cases and inquests into Troubles deaths.
Omagh bombing public inquiry gets underway with testimony from relatives and survivors
An independent public inquiry into a 1998 bombing in Omagh in Northern Ireland in which 29 people were killed and 220 injured ...
America Magazine2d
Michael Longley’s poetry perfectly blends Irish political and pastoral themes
Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...
The Irish Times3d
PSNI officer who made Troubles commemoration event arrest did not respond ‘with sensitivity’
A PSNI officer who made an arrest at a Troubles commemoration event during ... a police watchdog report has found. The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman released the findings of an investigation ...
RTE Online12d
Reform of Troubles commission needed to secure trust - Benn
The Northern Ireland Secretary of State has said he appreciates why families of some Troubles victims remain sceptical about ...
The Daily Telegraph7d
Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet who ranged from nature and classics to the Troubles
But this came against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland – his first poems appeared in the early 1970s – and along with friends and contemporaries such as Seamus Heaney and Derek ...
McVeigh's top GAA photographs
On this week's GAA Social, sports photographer Oliver McVeigh talks to Thomas and Oisin about his favourite images from GAA ...
Omagh bomb dead to be remembered as inquiry opens
The initial stage of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry opens on Tuesday. The hearing will commemorate the lives of the 29 people ...
The Daily Telegraph13d
Hilary Benn was behind Gerry Adams compensation decision, says No 10
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said the Northern Ireland Secretary took the decision to scrap parts of Troubles legislation barring the former Sinn Fein president from claiming ...