PIRA
IRA: Who were the Provisional Irish Republican Army?
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) was a militant republican paramilitary group which used physical force violence in an effort to destabilise the Northern Ireland state and force the withdrawal of the British Army to bring about a united Ireland.
Jean McConville's daughter highly critical of new series dramatising events around her mother's murder
Filming has started in England on a ten-part drama series for Disney Plus that centres on the PIRA abduction and murder of the mother-of-ten in 1972.
English heiress who was involved in failed IRA helicopter-bomb plot 'estranged from family'
A three-part documentary on Rose Dugdale reveals details of her privileged upbringing, "eccentric" education.
Victims of IRA bomb attacks in England issue civil proceedings against Gerry Adams
THREE victims of IRA bombs in London and Manchester have issued civil proceedings against Gerry Adams alleging his involvement in directing the attacks.
Former Provo Kieran Conway claims Martin McGuinness sanctioned Lord Mountbatten killing
SINN Féin has said a claim that Martin McGuinness was the IRA's chief of staff when it murdered Lord Mountbatten in 1979 is "unfounded.
State papers: Belfast's Conway Mill denied funding over IRA fears
THE British government denied funding to an industrial complex in west Belfast in the mid-1980s due to concerns that it was linked to the Provisional IRA.
NIO believed Bishop Daly could 'influence' John Hume
THE British government believed the late Bishop Edward Daly could help overcome John Hume's resistance to talks with unionists in the late 1980s.
State papers: Memo notes 'ghetto mentality' of west Belfast
THE head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service spoke of west Belfast having a "ghetto mentality" and being alienated from "normal civilised behaviour".
Monaghan assault rifles part of Michael McKevitt RIRA haul
ASSAULT rifles seized in Co Monaghan are among several hauls of weapons syphoned off by former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and buried in sealed silage tanks after he split from the Provisionals in 1997.