John Downey, a 61-year-old Donegal man, has been charged with the 1982 IRA attack on the Queen’s cavalry in Hyde Park, London. The nail-bombing at the tourist attraction killed four police officers and seven horses.

Domhnall Gleeson’s ready for his close up. Now, at the age of 29, he’s finally landing the kind of leading roles that promise to turn him into an internationally recognized Irish leading man like Michael Fassbender and Colin Farrell. 

One of the world’s leading media barons has revealed a teenage dalliance with the IRA that saw him become a gun runner for the Proves.

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.

British state papers just released claim that Margaret Thatcher’s government offered to end the hunger strikes in return for an IRA ceasefire in 1981 – and the IRA was close to agreement.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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