Paramilitary groups were active on both sides of Northern Ireland's political divide, including the IRA, the UDA, the UVF and the INLA. Since the peace process began, several paramilitary splinter ...

The Enniskillen bombing, one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland's Troubles, occurred on November 8, 1987, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a bomb during a ...

He told the court it "showed the IRA were out on the streets in force ... He told the court that he had served several tours in Northern Ireland and felt that when it came to 1971, he sometimes ...

Fred Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife in 2003 A report into the activities of the Army agent known as Stakeknife will call for government and IRA ...

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The agent, who was working for the Army, headed up the internal IRA investigation into the Loughgall ambush in 1987 ... Mr Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as ...

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) campaign designed to stop firms in Northern Ireland supplying materials to the security forces has this week forced four companies to give a public assurance they ...

of Constable Michael Marshall killed in an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush at Beleek on Friday. Report shows Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) band leading the cortege through the town.

The inquest concerns the death of three IRA gunmen who were killed in an SAS ambush that took place ... who was a cousin of Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s current First Minister, who ...

THE self-styled New IRA claimed responsibility yesterday for Friday’s bomb attack on a prison ... The victim, a long-serving officer based at Hydebank Wood Young Offenders Centre in south Belfast who ...

As a senator in 1985, Mr Biden opposed and watered down an extradition treaty with Britain that would have made it easier to bring to justice IRA terrorists. Senior unionists in Northern Ireland ...