The Troubles did not break out on a specific date, but it is generally agreed that they began in 1969. The seeds of the ...

The Policy Exchange think tank also warns about potential future costs - which it claims could amount to £1.3bn.

The Protestant cleric and unionist leader remains one of the most distinctive and controversial figures in modern Irish ...

The first Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC ... 250 people were killed in England and the Republic of Ireland during the Troubles. People died in Europe as well, as the IRA sought diplomatic and ...

The relationship between the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Army in ... the name given to the army's support role for the police during the Troubles, lasted for 38 years. It was the longest ...

The police ombudsman is to appeal a High Court ruling that she exceeded her legal powers in making findings of collusive ...

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J. G. MacLean had joined the Orange Order in his teens and felt great solidarity with fellow Protestants in Ulster when the Troubles began. Many of his contemporaries believed that the violence ...

The 1970s were statistically the worst times of the Troubles. There were 2,096 killings between 1970 and 1979, and 68 of ...

Until now, Mr Adams – twice detained without trial during the Troubles – and hundreds of other former suspected Northern Irish terrorists have been blocked from getting payouts for alleged ...

A memorial plaque to Gallagher is already in place at the Ulster Hall. Donal Gallagher ... that he continued to gig in Belfast during the Troubles. "He spent so many of his earlier years in ...