Lawyers for the researchers with the Boston Tapes project fear a fresh legal challenge to release documents in the wake of the death of convicted IRA woman Dolours Price.

An Irish police detective  was shot dead after an attempted robbery near Dundalk, County Louth. a few miles from the Irish border on Friday night in a crime that has shocked the nation. It is 1996 since such a similar killing took place.

Support for Fianna Fail is way up according to the latest Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes opinion poll.

Nobel Prize for literature winner Seamus Heaney has said there will never be a united Ireland and that Loyalists should be allowed to fly their flag over Belfast City Hall.

Hollywood actor Stephen Rea has carried his former wife Dolours Price’s coffin at her Belfast funeral.

Boston College has filed a new appeal asking a federal court to throw out an earlier ruling handing over IRA interview tapes to the British government after the death of key witness Dolours Price.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has apologised for the IRA murder of Irish police officer Jerry McCabe – 17 years later.

Veteran republican Bernadette McAliskey paid an emotional tribute to former IRA hunger striker Dolours Price, who was buried in Belfast on Monday.

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Thousands of mourners were on hand at St. Joseph’s Redemptorist Church in Dundalk, Co Louth to pay their respects to 41-year-old detective garda Adrian Donohoe who was shot while on duty last week.

Irish leader Enda Kenny described Gerry Adam’s apology to the family of murdered Detective Jerry McCabe as “ironic."

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD, Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy, and MLAs and Councillors from both sides of the border were in Dundalk on Friday for the local launch of Sinn Féin’s campaign for a border poll.

Irish American business leader Bill Flynn has emerged as the benefactor who paid for controversial prostate medical treatment for Gerry Adams in the US.

Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin has firmly shut the door on any power sharing arrangement with Sinn Fein as his party surges in popularity.

Dublin Sinn Fein TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh tabled a new bill, the Public Holidays (Lá Na Poblachta) Bill 2013, on Thursday at the Dail which looks to create a national holiday in Ireland to commemorate the April 1916 Rising.

In a bizarre twist, a Westminster seat in Northern Ireland will be competed for by a man once accused of killing the father of another candidate.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has slammed the loyalist flag protesters for tarnishing the Good Friday agreement and peace in Northern Ireland.

The family of a man shot dead in front of his three-year-old son by the IRA has slammed a Sinn Fein award to the getaway driver in the bank raid in which he died.

Sinn Fein veteran Francie Molloy, once a director of elections for Bobby Sands, has been elected to retain the Westminster seat of Mid-Ulster in succession to Martin McGuinness.

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A delegation from Sinn Fein met Secretary of State John Kerry and senior State Department officials in Washington, D.C. on Monday morning.

Sinn Fein vice-president Martin McGuinness has condemned the dissidents responsible for a bomb intercepted by police close to the venue for the G8 summit.

Two new opinion polls have offered differing views of the current state of the government parties in Ireland – with one suggesting as many as 50 Fine Gael and Labor Party deputies would lose their seats in a snap election.

Speaking to Republicans throughout the North at the Party convention in Derry Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister, told party activists that:
 
"If we are to become persuaders for a new Ireland … a land of equals… and if we are to respond appropriately to the fears and uncertainties of those who see us through different eyes than we see ourselves.
 
“We want and need unionists to understand what we are about and what our politics is about and what it really means for them.
 
“The transformation of society must include addressing their needs.”
 
McGuinness said Northern Ireland was undergoing massive change.

Sinn Fein leaders have warned Dissident Republicans to lay down their arms – and claimed the Irish and British governments are treating the peace process with complacency.

US Secret Service are checking out secure hotel accommodation along the Republic of Ireland-Northern Irish Border in preparation for the G8 Summit in June. The summit will be held at the Lough Erne Golf Resort in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said Margaret Thatcher did great hurt to the Irish and British people in her reign as the first female British Prime Minister.

Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness called for an end to republicans organizing parties to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s death.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’ reaction to the death at the age of 87 of Baroness Margaret Thatcher was hardly surprising. He delivered a scathing assessment of her political legacy in Ireland.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams says he has forgiven Margaret Thatcher for her many political miscalculations, but not for her handling of the hunger strikes.

A search for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims resumed this week, in a bog close to the border.

Eve after her death Margaret Thatcher figured at the Sinn Fein annual conference last weekend when a new addition to merchandise on sale were green-colored Thatcher t-shirts.  Daubed across them were the words, in Irish: “I still hate Margaret Thatcher.”

On Thursday, Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister Alex Attwood formally gave the green light for the historic Maze Prison to be repurposed into a peace center with help from a European grant.

Gay marriage has been defeated in Northern Ireland following a block vote of major Unionist parties against it.

While the PSNI has begun making plans to subpoena the Boston College ‘Belfast Project’ interview tapes, some are fearful that the exposure of the tapes could bring down Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and, in turn, the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD has called on the British government to honor its commitments and for the Irish government to urgently re-engage in the peace process following a succession of decisions by the British government which are seriously undermining the Good Friday Agreement and political institutions.

It's the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, and a top-level public symposium has been announced for May 23 in New York City to reflect on the successes and challenges that lie ahead to secure lasting peace in the North.