Terrorism

It heard from Tanya Williams-Powell, granddaughter of German businessman Thomas Niedermayer – who was kidnapped and killed by the Provisional IRA on December 27, 1973.

Victims of terrorism across world unite ahead of day of remembrance

Michelle O’Neill has said there is “discussion to be had” on extending a compensation scheme for those permanently disabled in an incident from Northern Ireland’s troubled past.

‘Discussion to be had’ on Troubles compensation extension, - O’Neill

Isobella Perrie Sullivan leaving after she appeared before a special sitting of Trim District Court in Co Meath on Friday evening after a bomb was intercepted in a car near the Irish border. Picture date: Friday July 24, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Damien Eagers/PA Wire

DUP leader questions Irish court’s decision to grant bail in Carrickmacross case

The scene at Dunmurry PSNI station where a car bomb exploded on Saturday night

UUP leader says 'cowardly terrorists will never win' after Dunmurry explosion

Philip McGarry writes of the former UDA leader Andy Tyrie, who died on May 16; he says that 'forgiveness' for paramilitaries is not always warranted

Dr Philip McGarry: Calls for Troubles ‘forgiveness’ can be counter-productive

Members of the Middlesbrough community come together to clean up their streets after far-right activists destroyed property following riots on 5 August (Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Workers' rights explained as shops close early for 'busy' day of riots

An Irish League club's good luck message to Armagh GAA before their All-Ireland final has sparked an angry response from a football supporters group

Glenavon's well wishes to Armagh GAA 'a sense of deep betrayal'

The Foreign Office has issued a new travel warning for European country Slovakia due to a “new terrorism risk”. (Photo: Getty Images/Canva Pro)

'New terrorism risk' in European country

Alister Sutherland QPM, Deputy Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, Julia Corkey, Chief Executive, ICC Belfast, Waterfront Hall and Ulster Hall, David Evans, International Chair and Founder of TiNYg, John Clifford, Department of Business and Trade, Figen Murray OBE, Mother of Martyn Hett and campaigner for Martyn’s Law, Charlie McCloskey, Director of Events and Customer Experience, ICC Belfast, Waterfront Hall and Ulster Hall

Martyn's Law discussed at ICC Belfast to thwart terrorist activity

The Foreign Office has issued a new travel warning about increased risk in 18 countries including popular holiday destinations. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

Breaking New travel warning for 18 countries

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering shortages of food, medicines and other basic supplies as a result of the two and a half month war with Israel

Sandra Chapman: Christmas should be a time for peace, not war

A baby rocking chair is left in a house that was destroyed in a battle between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in Be'eri, Israel

Sandra Chapman on the infants killed in the Israel–Gaza conflict

The Legacy and Reconciliation Bill is progressing through Parliament with the intention that it gains royal assent ahead of the summer recess

Letter: SEFF will fight tooth and nail to preserve integrity of 'the past'

Republican terrorists, pictured, outkilled loyalists by 2:1 during the Troubles

William Matchett: The political purpose behind all those collusion smears

Prince William

Prince William supports Manchester Arena bombing survivors

Letters to editor

Letter: A co-ordinated effort is needed to quell terror narrative
A letter from Kenny Donaldson:
Letters

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris speaking to the media at Hillsborough Castle after his meetings with Stormont leaders over Brexit and the Windsor Framework.

Breaking MI5 raises terror threat level in Northern Ireland to ‘severe’

Brixham Road, Edgbaston

Breaking Counter terror police investigate after man set on fire near mosque

A man has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after a woman was stabbed outside a leisure centre. The woman was attacked outside the centre in Cheltenham on Thursday night and was taken to hospital where she is now said to be in a stable condition.

Man arrested on suspicion of terrorism after woman stabbed

A vigil held in Manchester city centre following the bombing at Manchester Arena. Photo: AFP via Getty Images

MI5 director apologises for not stopping Manchester Arena attack

Emergency services arrive close to the Manchester Arena on May 23, 2017. (Photo by Dave Thompson/Getty Images)

MI5 missed ‘significant chance’ to stop Manchester Arena attack

A cordon has been put in place at St James's Hospital and army specialists are in attendance. Photo: National World

Man arrested after suspicious object found outside Leeds hospital

US holidaymakers may need visa after visit to Cuba

The government’s pursuit of a de facto amnesty for Troubles wrongdoing uproots the rule of law

DUP MLA: Amid ongoing terror, we will oppose legacy bill’s corruption of justice

Joe Calvin with his daughter Ann. Mr Calvin was murdered 50 years ago this week

Victims of terrorism "deserve so much better"

Friday marks the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks (Getty Images)

How the September 11 attacks unfolded, 19 years on

An RUC man keeps guard at a checkpoint. Dr Dingley writes: "The security forces had to operate according to law, wearing recognisable uniforms, carrying arms openly, operating within a formal control system"

James Dingley: The quest for ‘balance’ in dealing with the legacy of the Trouble...
The problem with balance on matters arising from the legacy of the Troubles is simple: it equates good with evil and fails to discriminate between just cause and no cause, vital distinctions in national and international law.
James Dingley

Stormont is illuminated last March, in 2019, to mark
European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism. Photo: David McCormick/Pacemaker Press

Dismay and disappointment at assembly decision not to illuminate Parliament Buil...

Irish Tánaiste Simon Coveney and Secretary of State Karen Bradley at Stormont House in April. "She allowed Irish ministers to behave as if they were speaking for NI".
Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

Kate Hoey: Julian Smith must not let Irish ministers act as if they speak for No...

Paying pension to those injured by their own terrorism is a throw-back to the Eames/Bradley plan to pay victims £12,000, which caused uproar and led to angry scenes at its launch in 2009 at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, above

Terror victim: Paying a pension even to those injured by their own terrorism is ...

Letter to the editor

Terrorism does pay – just ask SF’s victorious MEP

Portadown town centre. Pic by Google

Spate of hoax bomb alerts caused ‘chaos’ in town centre

Alex Kane

As I keep saying, the past is still way, way ahead of us

Ken Funston of SEFF, whose brother was murdered by the IRA, addresses a seminar on Troubles legacy legislation earlier this year

Victims' group SEFF in bid to curtail NIO Troubles legacy consultation

The 1996 IRA Canary Wharf bomb

Legacy Scandal: '˜My East End community never recovered from the Docklands bomb ...

Emma Little Pengelly brought forward a new victims bill to the Commons

MPs urged to back pensions for terror victims

Jo Berry, daughter of the Conservative politician Sir Anthony Berry who was murdered in the 1984 Brighton bombing, talking to a meeting with Patrick Magee, the republican bomber who planted the deadly device

Terror survivors set up new lobby group

HAVE AN EXPLOSIVE CHRISTMAS... The window display at Junior McDaid House

'˜Outrage' at rocket launcher snowman

Family members and survivors at an event marking the 40th anniversary of the Claudy attack in 2012

Claudy remembrance service has '˜message of hope'

Boris Johnson

Johnston internet call:'˜no safe safe for terrorists'.

The mural on the junction between at the junction of Rathkeele Way and Rathlin Drive in the Creggan area

Timing of IRA mural unveiling '˜distasteful'

Judith Jenkins

Bomb widow: Jeremy Corbyn must condemn all IRA violence

DUP leader Arlene Foster.

Pressure mounts on Sinn Fein over Manchester '˜hypocrisy'

It is nonsense to say IRA bombs were OK

Emergency services at Manchester Arena

NI political parties suspend campaigning after Manchester bomb

Dr William Matchett at the News Letter Belfast office with his book Secret Victory: The Intelligence War that Beat the IRA.
Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

The good guys beat the IRA once the state got its act together

Police at the scene of the incident in Londonderry on Wednesday

'˜Justifying' Provos campaign plays into dissidents' hands: DUP

A Royal Ulster Constabulary police officer looking at the damage caused by the RIRA bomb in Omagh in 1998.

Funding appeal for terror law reform

23-11-2015 Press Eye
Picture Colm O'Reilly Press Eye 23-11-2015
Kenny Donaldson at St.Marys Collage, West Belfast.
Mr Donaldson at the collage to give a talk on SEFF and show a quilt made by family members from Fermanagh that have lost loved ones through the troubles.
South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF) formed in 1999 as a result of identified needs amongst those who have been the innocent victims of terrorism in this part of Northern Ireland, together with their families.
Picture Colm O'Reilly Press Eye 23-11-2015

Who was really responsible for Troubles-related deaths?

Tom Elliott said Sunday's service was 'very moving'

MP's plea to remember RUC and UDR dead

IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. Pacemaker Belfast

'˜Terrorism idolatry' of Sands film angers IRA victims

DUP: UUP support for Glens council facility shows poor judgment

Israel has long experience of the terrorism from Islamic extremists that hit Belgium above (still image taken from video from RTL Belgium of people receive treatment in the debris strewn terminal at Brussels Airport after explosions on Tuesday) Image RTL via AP

EU might now finally stand with Israel against Islamic terror

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World must unite against those who feel they have a right to take life

IRA terrorism is wrong in 2016 just as it and all terror was wrong in 1976

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