When the boots of 300 soldiers hit the ground in Londonderry in August 1969, so began the longest continuous campaign in British military history. The plan was to restore public order and be out in a ...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Peter Olphert was 14 when Irish Republican Army gunmen killed his father. Forty years later, he says it’s time to set aside the past. Mark Thompson lost his brother to ...
A new UK and Irish deal on mechanisms to deal with the Northern Ireland Troubles offers an opportunity to deal with the “unfinished business” of the region’s peace agreement, Hilary Benn said said.
The legacy of Northern Ireland’s Troubles has been described as a “millstone round the neck of police”. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is contending with the cost of the past in ...