This week witnessed an historic first face-to-face meeting between Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Ulster Unionist Party leader and First Minister of the Six County Assembly David Trimble. Free article

The announcement of a ``complete cessation of military activity'' from midnight on Tuesday by the group responsible for the Omagh bomb came following a week of extensive political pressure exerted by republicans and others. Free article

Sean Brady witnessed the Irish reception for a US President in trouble Free article

A young New Lodge Road woman who received a bullet in the post has told An Phoblacht she wants to move out of her home as she is frightened for her children's safety. Free article

A decision by the Parades Commission to ban a loyalist parade through the centre of Crumlin, County Antrim, was effectively overruled last Saturday by the RUC. Free article