A UVF bomb ripped through Patrick McGurk’s Tramore Bar near the nationalist New Lodge Road in north Belfast in December 1971, killing 15 men, women and children Free article

Tom Redmond says he has resigned from the Labour Party after a period of serious disillusionment with the direction of the party and its actions in government. Free article

At the 2013 Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Martin McGuinness said that if the Bedroom Tax was brought before the Assembly then Sinn Féin would move to block it Free article

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is awarded annually by MEPs Free article

Mary Lou McDonald says current elitist Seanad must go but a future second chamber could be considered Free article

Villiers’s Cambridge speech reflects continuing failure by British governments to acknowledge their role as participants in the conflict Free article

Leaders of newest unionist party address Sinn Féin's 'think-in' in Carlingford, County Louth Free article

MORE than 240 people who used to live in the Priory Hall apartments in the north Dublin City suburb of Donaghmede are facing a second Christmas out of their homes and in temporary accommodation. The complex was evacuated in October 2011 after failings in fire and safety regulations led to the complex being immediately condemned as a death trap for the men, Free article

Fine Gael/Labour Government has a Minister for Small Business indebted and dependent on banks to support his personal business interests, Sinn Féin Senator David Cullinane says Free article

Louisiana eighth US state to pass a resolution in support of Irish reunification Free article