10 Years After Cease-Fire, IRA Casts Long Shadow
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For many of the men and women who had  spent years at the sharp end of the Irish Republican Army's  (IRA) violent campaign against British rule in Northern  Ireland, August 31, 1994 was an emotional day.
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NORTHERN IRELAND S political parties have come closer than at any stage in recent history to agreeing terms for a permanent end to disarm the IRA and revive a power-sharing government.
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The British governmentâs recognition of the Ulster Defence Associationâs ceasefire officially came into effect today. It came hours after the UDA, Northern Irelandâs largest loyalist paramilitary group
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Talks to reintroduce power sharing in Northern Ireland have reached a stalemate over the issue of photographing the handover of IRA weapons.
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BELFAST/DUBLIN  - Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a  lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hung  precariously Tuesday on whether IRA guerrillas would allow  pictures to be taken of their weapons being destroyed.
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Hopes of finding a solution to Northern Ireland&#39;s political deadlock stalled last night over the IRA&#39;s refusal to disarm its weapons transparently.
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Suspense was building over whether Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic parties would finally restore power-sharing institutions and pave the way to a lasting settlement.
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Ireland DUBLIN -- The mayor evacuated his official residence overnight and army specialists were called to the building yesterday to search for a bomb that a Protestant paramilitary group said it had planted 25 years ago. The Ulster Volunteer Force leaders said they had targeted the leadership of the Irish Republican Army's political ally Sinn Fein with a bomb hidden ...
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The Independent Monitoring Commission says the IRA is continuing to dismantle its structures.
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The real possibility of an end to the IRA has been on the agenda at talks between members of Northern Ireland&#39;s major political parties.
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NEWRY, Northern Ireland -- From the windows of a 19th-century textile mill that long lay derelict, Feargal McCormack looked past the Catholic row houses that once seethed with poverty and anger to the road along the Newry canal, where car bombs went off and snipers lurked for 30 years of sectarian violence.
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Britain and Ireland struggled to revive negotiations for a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland by mulling ways that Protestants and Catholics could agree on to carry out a credible disarmament of the IRA ...
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The British and Irish governments were forced to reassess the troubled status of the Northern Ireland peace process after IRA, the main Catholic paramilitary group, warned of the "seriousness of the situation."
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Troubling signs of dangerous volatility within the IRA yesterday are generating fears that the Northern Ireland peace process could deteriorate from crisis into free fall.
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LEEDS CASTLE, England  - Talks aimed at sealing a  lasting peace settlement for Northern Ireland ended without a  comprehensive deal on Saturday despite significant progress on  disarming the IRA, Britain and Ireland said.
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Veteran politician and international administrator Paddy Ashdown looks at how lessons from other foreign interventions were ignored in Iraq.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland was  facing a long bout of deadlock and recrimination Thursday after  Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas said they were  withdrawing a conditional offer to give up their weapons.