The July 12 theme of civil and religious liberty does not apparently apply in Antrim, where the flag-erecters have taken the ...

Once a brutal fixture of life in many communities, paramilitary-style ‘punishment’ attacks are in steep decline ...

The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) has announced that it will pursue exclusively peaceful means for achieving its political goals. The Irish republican paramilitary group, which is ...

One of the most lethal paramilitary groups in the Northern Ireland conflict is expected to announce on Monday that it has dumped all its weapons, sources close to the militants said on Saturday.

The Irish and British governments are to appoint an independent expert to examine the potential for a formal process of engagement with paramilitary groups to work towards their disbandment.

Northern Ireland's oldest paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force, announced its full disarmament Saturday - a long-sought peacemaking move that, if confirmed, would formally end the pro ...

Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ever.

Jackie McDonald, the influential south Belfast Ulster Defence Association leader, listened recently to former Alliance leader John Alderdice’s complaints that loyalist paramilitaries have not gone ...

Report says IRA among Troubles paramilitary groups still in existence Peter Robinson to return to Stormont despite refusal to believe Sinn Fein’s denials that the IRA is still active.

Robert Alan Osbourne (47) was detained after the weapon was discovered last month along with £10,000 worth of cocaine and ...

Irish-language rap group Kneecap has peformed for tens of thousands of fans at the Glastonbury Festival despite controversy and criticism from British politicians. Group member Liam Óg Ó ...

The UVF is preparing to disband more than 30 years after it called a ceasefire as part of a deal with the British government, it has been claimed. The loyalist paramilitary group was responsible ...