Tánaiste (Irish PM) Simon Harris and NI Secretary Hilary Benn met in Dublin on Monday [PA Media] The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn said he is confident legislation to set up new ...

An agreement between the UK and Irish governments on dealing with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles is "effectively there", the Tánaiste has said. Speaking after the British-Irish ...

A former judge heading up a controversial Troubles legacy body which is opposed by nearly everybody except the British government said this week he hopes the Irish government will cooperate with him.

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 ...

BELLAGHY, Northern Ireland (AFP) — When a coroner’s inquest into the unsolved murder of Sean Brown during Northern Ireland’s “Troubles” was relaunched last year, his family hoped their long search for ...

At least sixteen inquests into deaths that occurred during the Northern Ireland Troubles will not be completed by the deadline set out in the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act ...

The UK government announced Friday it would replace controversial legislation designed to draw a line under issues stemming from three decades of violence in Northern Ireland, paving the way for ...

LONDON (AP) — A new law that gives immunity from prosecution for most offenses committed during Northern Ireland's decades of sectarian violence is not compliant with human rights, a judge in Belfast ...