DUBLIN (AP) – A new Irish Republican Army faction in Northern Ireland claimed responsibility Monday for its first killing and defended the bloodshed as a necessary act of vengeance. The group, a ...

Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Down, Fermanagh and Tyrone. Those six counties are all that stand between Ireland and unity.

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s security services protected a top spy planted within the Irish Republican Army when they knew he was wanted by police for murder, and continued to suppress the truth about the ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- Rival negotiators began talks Wednesday on reviving a joint Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland, a major goal of peacemaking inspired a decade ago ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. DUBLIN (AP) — Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army chieftain who turned away from ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Bitter enemies from Northern Ireland's bloody past joined forces Tuesday atop a new Northern Ireland government, a once-unimaginable achievement that both sides pledged ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) _ The Irish Republican Army on Tuesday rescinded its plans to disarm, plunging peace efforts in Northern Ireland into deeper trouble and reinforcing Protestant hostility ...

Dissident republican group the New IRA on Tuesday admitted responsibility for killing Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKeen during rioting in Londonderry last week, in a statement to The Irish News.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- The Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland mounted a display of unity against rising violence from Irish Republican Army dissidents -- and vowed Tuesday to ...