Bobby Storey (left) was a close friend of former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams An independent report into how Belfast City Council organised the cremation of republican Bobby Storey has found Sinn ...

HMS Maidstone was an old an ex-Royal Navy Ship, pressed back into service to hold republican internees in ... and swam 270 meters through an ice-cold Belfast Lough in a bid to escape the floating ...

He was the sixth civilian to be killed by soldiers from the Green Howards in the Ardoyne area that year. Eddie Copeland is a high-profile republican from Belfast Five members of the regiment had ...

The funeral of senior republican Ted Howell ... service will take place at his late residence in the Suffolk area of west Belfast on Tuesday at 11am before his remains are taken to Milltown ...

Duffy, who died in June 2004, also was a prominent republican, who for many years was director of the Falls Community Council in west Belfast. Howell’s 31-year-old brother, James, a car dealer ...