At the height of the Troubles in 1972 ... The army was deployed because Northern Ireland's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), was at breaking point and unable to contain the ...

A former police officer is to be prosecuted for murder following an investigation into killings in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The decision comes after an investigation by the policing watchdog ...

How do you tell the story of Northern Ireland's Troubles, the conflict between Irish republicans and the British army, Royal Ulster Constabulary and loyalist paramilitary groups, in which almost ...

Further policing opportunities were available in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, but among a couple of hundred ex-RIC listed in a Civic Guard register in 1922 and 1923 (by which time recruitment of ...

What few people realised was that Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’ were about to ... many of them members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Ulster Defence Regiment of the British Army.

Adrian McKinty is a writer from Northern Ireland who currently resides in New York City. He grew up during the period known as ‘The Troubles" as sectarian violence along religious lines bedeviled the ...

Former RUC Asst Chief Constable William Stewart at the service at Sandys Street Presbyterian Church, Newry, to mark the 40th anniversary of the killing of nine Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC ...

At the height of the Troubles in 1972 ... The army was deployed because Northern Ireland's police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), was at breaking point and unable to contain the ...