Top stories of the week

Sinn Fein has been accused of sending out the signal to dissident republicans that “their actions are justified” by appearing to have “withdrawn” its condemnation of last Saturday’s car bombing in Londonderry.

Mock soldiers returned to the Irish border as protesters warned Theresa May not to allow a “nightmare” Brexit to derail Northern Ireland’s hard-won peace.

Leo Varadkar has warned of troops being deployed at the border after a ‘no deal’ Brexit.

David Cather, a rank and file DUP member since his teens, remembers what pushed him to do what not a single other DUP member had done before the EU Referendum – to publicly question whether Brexit was a good thing.

Tributes have been paid to Lisburn-based photographer John Kelly, who died on Saturday.

The mutilation of an ex-IRA man by his old comrades 20 years ago was a deliberate act to deprive his family of his face for the funeral, a former long-serving police officer has said.

A survivor of a Protestant Dublin mother and baby home in which 222 children died has demanded that the Church of Ireland and Irish government grant them an “apology and justice” before the remaining survivors all die.

Leo Varadkar has been accused of “losing the run of himself” and peddling “scare stories,” after the taoiseach claimed a botched Brexit could put troops back on the Irish border.