Pressure will mount on incoming Secretary of State John Kerry to inform British authorities that they should not pursue the Boston College IRA tapes as he had promised to do when he was head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

President Bill Clinton considers the Northern Ireland Peace Process his greatest foreign policy achievement according to a new radio documentary.

Dolours Price, 61, the woman at the center of the Boston College IRA tapes controversy has died suddenly.

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.

The widow of murdered detective Jerry McCabe has called on the Irish government to crack down on the ‘dark pockets’ in Ireland after the latest police killing.

Detective Joe Ryan, the partner of murdered cop Adrian Donohue, was warned that he would be shot in the head if he came to the aid of his dying friend.

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.

Dissident Republicans are planning a terrorist attack on the G8 summit in Fermanagh this summer according to security experts with Britain’s MI5.

A man suspected of involvement in the murder of Detective Adrian Donohoe has been warned by police that his life is in danger.

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.

A car belonging to loyalist flag protest chief Willie Frazer has been burnt out – hours after he received a death threat.

Rock legends The Who have revealed they received threats from the IRA when they first played in Ireland.

Police in Belfast have thwarted a dissident IRA attempt to launch a warhead against security forces.

Police in Derry have foiled a dissident Republican bomb attack which one local politician has claimed was intended to cost lives.

Korean car giant Kia has dropped plans to brand its new concept car Provo – after a flood of complaints from Northern Ireland.

A dissident Irish Republican Army (IRA) militant has been arrested in Reggio Callabria, in the South of Italy, as part of a Mafia sting operation.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness has been warned about a ‘viable’ death threat against him from Dissident Republicans in his native Derry.

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.

A convicted IRA prisoner turned international property developer has been accused in the Italian courts of using the Italian Mafia to launder money.

Chilling new audio tapes of a Fianna Fáil TD laughing about murdering suspected spies during the War of Independence are set to be aired for the first time.

Former IRA chief of staff Thomas “Slab” Murphy was tipped off four hours before he was to be targeted in a major cross-border police swoop.

The dissident republican group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH) have confirmed that the target for the bomb discovered in County Fermanagh this weekend was the Lough Erne Resort, the venue set to play host to Barack Obama, David Cameron and Vladimir Putin among others at the G8 Summit.

US President Barack Obama has warned there is work still to be done as Northern Ireland celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Good Friday agreement.

Dissident Republicans have been blamed for the murder of a pizza delivery man in Belfast on Saturday night.

The flute band named after Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, who was shot dead in Dublin last September, led an Easter republican commemoration in Derry on Monday.

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.

A Limerick woman gave a clenched fist salute and exclaimed “Mná na hÉireann, tiocfaidh ár lá” (“Women of Ireland, our day will come”) as she was led away having pleaded guilty to the murder of a father-of-two.

New York activists are planning a party of their own on  Saturday with a “celebration” of Thatcher’s death at a Brooklyn Irish bar.

Rose Lynch (50), from Limerick, was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of David Darcy and membership in an illegal IRA style group.

In the wake of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s death on Monday, police are asking groups who are planning to demonstrate her funeral to come forward in order to guarantee their rights are protected.

A Northern Irish police official has said that 8,000 officials and three surveillance drones will be brought in to protect President Obama and other visiting dignitaries during the J8 summit in June.

The IRA bomber who came within inches of killing Margaret Thatcher in 1984 says he stands by his actions – and the peace process.

The United States Supreme Court has denied an appeal that sought to keep interviews with former IRA members being turned over to the Northern Irish  police.

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

Monday’s Boston Marathon bomb blasts have revived painful memories of the 1998 Omagh bomb in Co. Tyrone, a Stormont Assembly member said.

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal to keep secret interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police authorities in Northern Ireland.

Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson has said the only thing Margaret Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were “all liars” and not to be trusted.

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.

Real IRA boss Michael McKevitt has failed in a court bid to declare his conviction for directing terrorism a miscarriage of justice.

In the wake of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death, Britain's former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson said the only thing Thatcher ever told him was that the Irish were “all liars” and not to be trusted.