The Latest Breaking News from ICRIR

Each episode of the Netflix adaptation of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing, which addresses the IRA’s tactic of disappearing alleged informers, ends with a disclaimer: “Gerry Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA or participating in any IRA violence”. The series suggests Adams’s role was as…

Eight men were killed in the roadside bomb attack in 1992 in Co Tyrone.

Former police officer Peter Sheridan is taking up the post at the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.

Peter Sheridan is to become commissioner for investigations at the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.

The former senior officer will work alongside Sir Declan Morgan on the ICRIR.

Sir Declan Morgan said he believed there may be the possibility that the commission would be able to recommend prosecutions for Troubles offences.

The former lord chief justice for Northern Ireland is the incoming chief commissioner of the ICRIR.

The draft legislation would establish a new commission aimed at uncovering facts around unsolved Troubles deaths.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has criticised the series of amendments to the legislation as not going far enough.