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Stakeknife's Scottish spymaster: The dark secrets of Northern Ireland's 'Dirty War'

Our Writer at Large has investigated Ulster's Dirty War for decades. Here, he talks to the veteran BBC reporter, John Ware, about the role of Scottish army officer Gordon Kerr

In Gaza, no privacy, no peace: this is what our lives look like a year after the ‘ceasefire’ |...

I look at myself and my neighbours queueing for water, and dream of a lost normality. We are now strangers even to ourselves, says Akram Al-Sourani, a writer and poet from Gaza City

Rise of Palestinian parties in Knesset will redraw Israel’s political landscape

Exit polls indicate opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot will have to work with Arab-Israeli leaders to have a hope of governing

New polling confirms Sinn Féin surge on back of Drumcree dispute

Portadown Orangemen’s bid to walk down Garvaghy Road has revitalised republicans’ fortunes

TPQ: Criminalising Of INLA Hunger Striker Patsy O'Hara

Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour review – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier,...

3Arena, DublinSeveral unannounced guests feature on the first European date of the rapper’s sold-out benefit tour, including video messages from Mark Ruffalo and Cynthia Nixon

The life and death of Jaysley Beck: how her mother turned detective – and took on the military

In 2021, the young soldier took her life after being sexually assaulted by a sergeant major, then sent thousands of messages by her line manager. She was just 19. Five years on, Leighann McCready is...

‘We want a full apology for slavery’: Commonwealth at a crossroads as king heads to the Caribbean

Campaigners say tour could hasten Charles’s removal as head of state unless he does more to confront monarchy’s historic role in slave trade

Lower Ormeau residents ‘hoping for the best but preparing for the worst’

Local people speak of hope Apprentice Boys parade plans will not ‘jeopardize’ Derry event in December

‘No Pope of Rome’ tune played at Orange Order Drumcree support rally and parade

‘The use of songs and music to denigrate a community is unacceptable and hardly a welcome expression of culture’