Politics

A former IRA commander has said that the former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was not only a member of the IRA, but he sat opposite him on its army council.

Brexit has lit the fuse on a stick of dynamite under the Good Friday Agreement, Appeal Court judges in Belfast have been told.

The Evangelical Alliance has challenged the Human Rights Commission for supporting decriminalised abortion in NI without raising any concerns that pending reforms here will remove all protections for pregnancies involving minor disabilities.

To Neville Chamberlain and Anthony Eden we must now add the name David Cameron. A prime minister who will be remembered for just one thing; a catastrophic error of judgment. Not just the error itself, but his response to it, when he walked away rather than make any effort to deal with the mess he had created. Stupidity and cowardice will be the only words carved onto his legacy tombstone.

There’s been a call for CCTV to be installed at a Co Armagh play park following an upsurge in anti-social behaviour in the area.

Moves to return neighbourhood sergeants to Lurgan, Banbridge and Lagan River have been welcomed.

The planned decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland will leave healthcare workers who conscientiously object to the procedure “exposed”, a former midwife has warned.

A union representing nurses who work at a scandal-hit hospital in Co Antrim has come out in support of a public inquiry into the handling of abuse allegations at the facility.

What I would like to know is this.

More schools will fall into deficit unless Northern Ireland’s education system is bailed out, a support body chief has warned.

Footage from a lost documentary showing how the IRA trained new recruits in weapons classes will be aired by the BBC.

A second referendum on Scottish independence and one on the Northern Irish border issue have widespread support among voters on the UK mainland, a new poll suggests.

The Emma De Souza case is a good example of how nationalists either do not understand or accept the Belfast Agreement.

There was major media interest yesterday over possible compromise in the DUP position on an Irish Sea border.

The challenge by John O’Dowd to the vice presidency of Sinn Fein was a complete shock to those of us who look at the republican movement from outside.

Kingsmills massacre victims have urged a district council to ensure that a playground named after an IRA man linked to the atrocity does not carry his name after it is sold.

A year and a half ago, it was clear that the DUP and Sinn Féin leaderships wanted to cut a deal to restore Stormont.

RHI Inquiry chairman Sir Patrick Coghlin has moved to dismiss claims that there is anything untoward in the length of time which it is taking for his report to be published.