BY the autumn of 1976, the armed conflict in the Six Counties had been ongoing for seven years. The widespread imprisonment, ill-treatment and, in some cases, torture of nationalists by the British state fuelled the conflict and, as so often in Irish...

The Easter Rising in 1916 was a pivotal event in Ireland’s history. It is the story that we grew up hearing, those who died that Easter time are the heroes that stilled our childhood play.

Earlier this month the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians, mostly women and children, brought again into sharp focus the scale of the genocide in the Gaza Strip. Only days ago, another mass funeral of 50 took place.  Those buried were recovered from ...

August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunge...

When a series of Sinn Féin and SDLP delegation meetings during 1987 and 1988 ended, both Gerry Adams and John Hume, then leader of the SDLP, continued to meet privately. Their dialogue became known as the Hume/Adams initiative, and culminated in ...

Fermanagh and South Tyrone DUP MLA, Deborah Erskine, has called on fellow MLAs to support a motion of no confidence in Agriculture Minister, Andrew Muir MLA following the slaughter of 51 cattle in Fivemiletown. 

A fresh cost assessment of a previously proposed three-school model has been agreed following a meeting between the Education Authority and local representatives in Donagh.

A café in Bellanaleck is to open next month in an historic building in the village.

Ulster Unionist Deputy Leader and Agriculture Spokesperson Diana Armstrong MLA has called for greater investment in rural policing, warning that families and farming communities across Northern Ireland are increasingly feeling the impact of a police ...

As part of our popular archive section, we have republished a report from the September 13, 2001 edition of The Impartial Reporter which dealt with the local people who were caught up in the United States of America as part of the September 11 terror...