IRA 'turns back on violence'
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Tony Blair welcomes the verdict by the NI paramilitary monitor on the IRA, saying its "campaign is over".
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Sinn Fein is totally opposed to any return to conflict, Gerry Adams tells a group of party members.
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An inquiry may be reopened into claims security forces began a "shoot-to-kill" policy during the Troubles.
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LEEDS CASTLE, ENGLAND - The Irish Republican Army would have to definitively renounce violence and the Democratic Unionists would have to agree to a joint administration if either side hopes to revive a peace deal in Northern Ireland.
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The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland called Tuesday on the IRA to disarm and put a stop to hostile activities, once more blaming the group for a massive bank heist that has gravely damaged power-sharing efforts in Northern Ireland.
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The Irish Republican Army's violent campaign in Northern Ireland is over, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday, following a report into paramilitary activity that raised hopes of reviving self-rule.
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Northern Ireland has taken another small step in the slow march towards restoring home rule this weekend with tacit promises from the IRA to end militant activity once and for all.
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Pressure grew on Northern Ireland's main Protestant party to back a deal to revive self-rule in the province, after a British minister said he is sure the IRA has renounced violence for good.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland - The Irish Republican Army is willing to resume disarming, but will not accept conditions designed to humiliate the outlawed group, Sinn Fein chief Gerry Adams said Tuesday as efforts to strike a new Northern Ireland peace
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BELFAST -- The family of a Catholic man slain by IRA members demanded an end yesterday to the intimidation that dissuades Catholics from cooperating with police, a crucial but often overlooked problem in the Northern Ireland peace process.
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By Kate KellandLONDON - The Irish Republican Army has changed fundamentally from the terror organization that fought British rule in Northern Ireland for decades and now poses no security threat, a British ...Comment
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Northern Ireland's largest and most violent outlawed group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it will desist from further attacks and wants to rejoin peacemaking efforts.
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Police investigating a Â£22m bank robbery in Northern Ireland distanced themselves yesterday from the suggestion it may have been organised by the IRA.
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The hardline Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley yesterday suggested that if the IRA decommissioned its weapons and wound up its criminal activity, it could be allowed to continue as &quot;an old boys&#39; association&quot;.
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Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons &#151; and does not commit crimes.
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Progress is possible in the Northern Ireland process but the IRA must stop all violence, Tony Blair has said.
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Northern Ireland's police chief blamed  the IRA on Friday for a massive bank raid in Belfast, an  accusation that undermines efforts to hand back running of the  British province to its divided Catholics and Protestants.