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Nine people were killed and 30 injured when three car bombs exploded on July 31 1972.
MPs voted 282 to 217 to give the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill a third reading.
Baby Martha O’Neill was stillborn three months after the bombings on 17 May 1974.
Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed in the British Army shootings.
The proposals are almost universally opposed by political parties across the UK and Ireland as well as victims’ groups.
It comes the day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Northern Ireland in a bid to restore power-sharing.
Under UK Government proposals, immunity for Troubles-related crime will depend on co-operation with an information retrieval body.
Browne has said he was “totally unaware” of any efforts made by a Belfast coroner to contact him in relation to the inquest.
Bloody Sunday families had challenged a number of decisions not to prosecute taken by the PPS.
‘We were playing football in the garden and the British soldiers were walking up the road across from us because there was a barracks close enough to where I live.’
Eight loyalist attacks attributed to the UDA or its Ulster Freedom Fighters cover name have been examined in an ombudsman’s report.
Micheál Martin will lay a wreath at the memorial to the victims of the tragedy.
Senior security figures told Irish officials two months before the ceasefire ended that the insistence on prior decommissioning was unnecessary.
The SDLP leader later retired from public life after 40 years as an activist.
The ‘Hooded Men’ were detained and subjected to extreme interrogation methods in 1971.
The comedian and broadcaster shares the text of his stirring speech made at the Shared Island Forum earlier this week.
In April 1987, an IRA car bomb killed two people and ended the career of Ulster flanker Nigel Carr, who was driving to Ireland training with two team-mates.
The proposal was first reported last weekend.
Dennis Hutchings is charged with the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in Co Tyrone in 1974.
The former soldier’s trial also heard from a war veteran and former MP who described the defendant as the epitome of the best class of officer.
It is reviewing a number of historic offences which occurred during the Troubles including more than 200 murders.
A cousin of Aidan McAnespie said today’s decision came as a “relief” to the family.
The Assembly was recalled from its summer recess as anger grows over proposals to deal with legacy in NI.
The 1997 speech, marking the 150th anniversary of the Famine, did not have input from the then-Prime Minister, files show.
Stormont is to be recalled on Tuesday to debate plans for a statute of limitations on Troubles crimes.
A former chief constable said the plans for a statute of limitations did not sit comfortably with him.
The proposed Troubles amnesty has been labelled the “mother and father of all cover-ups”.
Foreign Affairs minister Simon Coveney said: “This is not a fait accompli.”
A judge’s ruling in the trial over the 1972 murder of Joe McCann has led to two other cases unravelling.
Lawyers argued those affected were entitled to ‘effective, independent investigation’.
Down’s Conor Deegan and Antrim hurling legend Terence McNaughton recall the experiences of living through the Troubles.
Legislation on the issue is expected to be forthcoming.
The agreement was signed 23 years ago today.
The former BBC correspondent and author says it’s like a rewind button has been pressed to the past in the North.
The scheme applies to individuals who have lost a parent, spouse/partner, and/or a child in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
Cain has been a free online resource since March 1997.
The comments were made at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee earlier today.
They want an independent team of detectives to search for leads for fresh prosecutions and other measures to recover information.