# the-troubles - Wednesday 22 May, 2013
John Downey, 61, is charged in relation to the murders of four men.
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# the-troubles - Friday 17 May, 2013
Families will today remember the victims of the 1974 bombings, which marked the greatest loss of life in a single day during the Troubles.
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# the-troubles - Monday 6 May, 2013
Director Kieron J Walsh says it can be difficult to get Irish people to watch Irish movies, but this is changing. Here, he discusses shining a light on suicide, how Northern Ireland is not all about the the Troubles, and why Irish cinema is on the up.
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# the-troubles - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Artist Seán Hillen began taking photographs of the conflict in Northern Ireland when he was just a teenager – see this powerful archive.
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# the-troubles - Monday 15 April, 2013
The US Supreme Court appeal of Boston College’s Belfast Project was rejected today.
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# the-troubles - Saturday 13 April, 2013
A Wikileaks cable reveals that Garret FitzGerald asked the United States not to oppose any British reassignment of troops.
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# the-troubles - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
After almost two years of talks – and 17 hours past the deadline – the historic document was signed by Bertie Ahern and Tony Blair.
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# the-troubles - Monday 8 April, 2013
Miners’ strikes, IRA bombings, the Falklands invasion and the threat of Brussels…
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# the-troubles - Monday 1 April, 2013
Ireland and Lions flanker Fergus Slattery reflects on politics and sports mixing to ill-effect.
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# the-troubles - Sunday 3 March, 2013
The Sinn Féin president told TheJournal.ie this week that he did not believe questions about IRA membership – and his repeated denials – were damaging his party’s electoral prospects.
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# the-troubles - Tuesday 19 February, 2013
On whether he was ever a member of the IRA, Adams said: “I am a republican leader. I never distanced myself from the IRA. I never will distance myself from the IRA.”
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# the-troubles - Friday 8 February, 2013
Behind each death of the Troubles are real, grieving people – many of whom have been waiting for the truth for far too long, writes David McCann.
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# the-troubles - Monday 4 February, 2013
Paul McNally was 26 when he was shot in Belfast in what police believe was a random sectarian attack.
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# the-troubles - Wednesday 16 January, 2013
The issue in the North over flying the Union Jack requires quiet diplomacy, not grandstanding or lecturing. It’s in everyone’s interest that Dublin help broker a deal, writes Michael Anderson.
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# the-troubles - Saturday 29 December, 2012
FG chairman Charlie Flanagan said Dessie Ellis’s refusal to discuss British claims that he was involved in IRA murders were “utterly disgraceful”.
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# the-troubles - Friday 28 December, 2012
A newly-released British document claims that Ellis was involved in the murder of 50 people by the IRA in the north and south during the Troubles but he has rejected these claims.
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# the-troubles - Tuesday 18 December, 2012
The furious protests in Belfast are born primarily of the hurt of abandonment, writes Michael Anderson.
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# the-troubles - Sunday 2 December, 2012
Conrad Atkinson reflects on his experience of visiting Northern Ireland during the Troubles, the peace process, and how his painting of the Sinn Féin leader will soon hang in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
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# the-troubles - Sunday 4 November, 2012
A new file on the 1987 IRA atrocity, which killed 11 people and wounded dozens others, is to be examined by serious crime branch detectives.
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# the-troubles - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Although the peace agreement came into effect in 1998, the pain didn’t stop for many, writes Richard Barklie.
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# the-troubles - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Priest and journalist Father Brian D’Arcy discusses how politics and religion were always intertwined in his life, even as a young boy.
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# the-troubles - Tuesday 16 October, 2012
Enda Kenny told the Dáil now is not the time to move forward with talks about a United Ireland.
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# the-troubles - Tuesday 9 October, 2012
In an interview to be broadcast this evening, the former President also discusses gay marriage and discusses her attitude to church governance.
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# the-troubles - Friday 28 September, 2012
How can a government be asked to apologise for something in recent history when the full facts have yet to be disclosed, writes David McCann.
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# the-troubles - Monday 24 September, 2012
Sinn Féin’s deputy leader commented on the Sunday Telegraph interview this evening.
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# the-troubles - Tuesday 18 September, 2012
Columba McVeigh, from Donaghmore in Co Tyrone, is believed to have been shot dead by the Provisional IRA in 1975.
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# the-troubles - Monday 17 September, 2012
The DUP has tabled a motion asking Dublin to apologise for its potential involvement in events such as the killing of RUC officers.
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# the-troubles - Thursday 13 September, 2012
The Taoiseach is meeting with the relatives of victims of the Kingsmill Massacre this afternoon, which is expected to lead to renewed calls for an apology from the Irish government for its role in the conflict.
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Ten men were killed when they were taken from a minibus and shot in 1976, apparently merely for being Protestant.
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# the-troubles - Thursday 6 September, 2012
The UK’s South East Counter Terrorism Unit is liaising with the PSNI about the discovery.
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# the-troubles - Saturday 1 September, 2012
The Troubles were far from over on 1 September 1994, but for the first time in many decades, the people of Northern Ireland seemed optimistic about peace.
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# the-troubles - Thursday 26 July, 2012
The Real IRA is joining with Republican Action Against Drugs and others in a “unified structure” to reclaim the IRA name.
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# the-troubles - Wednesday 25 July, 2012
Professor Mike Tomlinson tells thejournal.ie that people have found the transition to peace difficult.
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# the-troubles - Thursday 5 July, 2012
The murder probe is to be launched two years after the findings of the landmark Saville Inquiry.
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# the-troubles - Sunday 1 July, 2012
Martin McGuinness has dismissed a report that former IRA leaders are considering an apology. But do you think they should?
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Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said that if anyone is going to apologise, then everyone should do it together – including the British government.
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Nine things to know this morning…
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# the-troubles - Thursday 17 May, 2012
The match comes 18 years to the day sine six men were killed while watching the two countries play.
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# the-troubles - Friday 27 April, 2012
Senator George Mitchell, who oversaw the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement, recounts his experiences planting the first seeds of peace.
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# the-troubles - Friday 6 April, 2012
The names of 3,700 people who killed during the Troubles were read aloud in Dublin’s Unitarian Church today to mark the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.
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