Sunday's march was smaller than in previous years because some victims' relatives stayed away, saying that they had been vindicated by the Saville inquiry. The 12-year-long probe found in 2010 that all the victims had been unarmed and innocent, ending...

Strong lobbying, however, by the likes of Mr Robinson, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, Justice Minister David Ford and former SDLP leader and Nobel Laureate John Hume – plus what Mr Ó Murchú described as an “avalanche” of messages from all...

Fanning's deeply held beliefs on Northern Ireland did a great service to the nation, writes John-Paul McCarthySeAn O'Rourke spoiled an otherwise moving tribute to Aengus Fanning on RTE radio last week when he accused him of vilifying John Hume in 1993. ...

He came across as being almost as deceptive as Margaret Thatcher. (Although publicly insisting she was not for turning on the H-Block strike, we know now that privately she pulled fairly hard on the MI5 back-channel

Minutes just released confirm the proactive role played in the ending of the protest by the relatives, the SDLP leader John Hume and Gowrie, a member of an Anglo-Irish family who had just arrived in the North as Jim Prior’s deputy, with responsibility...

ANGER and frustration of SDLP leader John Hume at the continuing inflexibility of the British prime minister towards the Republican hunger strike, despite the deaths to date of nine strikers, erupted at a tense meeting with the Northern Ireland...