Irish voters headed to the polls Thursday to elect a new president, with independent candidate Sean Gallagher taking a clear lead in the polls. A total of seven candidates are standing, including former IRA commander Martin McGuinness (pictured).
Irish voters are heading to the polls to elect a new head of state. The candidates are a mixed bunch, including an openly gay senator and a former commander of the IRA. Our correspondent Hervé Amoric went out on the campaign trial.
Northern Ireland heads to the polls on Thursday to elect a new Assembly at Stormont. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, long the face of Ireland's republican party, stood down last year in order to run for election in the Irish Republic. That's left his deputy, Martin McGuinness - a former IRA leader - in the running to become Northern Ireland's First Minister.
A car bomb killed a 25-year-old police officer in Omagh, police said Saturday, the first deadly attack in two years on Northern Ireland security forces.
A car bomb exploded early on Tuesday in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry, causing substantial damage to nearby shops, police have said. A warning received prior to the explosion had prompted the evacuation of houses and businesses in the area.
The British government raised the threat level of an Irish Republican related terror attack Friday from moderate to substantial, saying that a strike is a "strong possibility". The decision was based on factors including "intent" and "capability".
The Bloody Sunday Inquiry's long-awaited report into the most controversial incident in Northern Ireland's Troubles will finally be published today. The 12-year-long attempt to collate a true picture of what happened is certain to stir up deep-seated emotions in the province. The mammoth 5,000-page report examines the events of January 30, 1972 in Northern Ireland when 13 civilians were shot dead by British soldiers at a civil rights march.
Politicians from Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA now established in mainstream Northern Irish politics, to the British government in Westminster, are united in condemnation of the weekend attacks claimed by the Real IRA.
Several BBC journalists have been arrested in Donegal, Ireland as part of an investigation into paramilitary groups. The journalists have not been charged.
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