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Gabe Megahey (82), one of a group of Irish republicans known as the "deportees" who had been allowed by President Clinton to remain in America, has been ordered to leave the United States by way of a letter from the Department of Homeland Security. Others in the group, which includes Belfast H-Block escapees Terence Kirby and Kevin Barry Artt who live openly in California, seem, so far, not to have attracted the attention of the US authorities. In 1983, Gabe Megahey was convicted in an FBI sting of trying to procure SAM missiles to enable the IRA to step up...

An £18 million ($29 million) EU offer to fund the building of a peace and reconciliation center at the former Maze prison site has been withdrawn. The Democratic Unionists earlier halted plans to build the facility at the Maze, near Lisburn, as relations with their power-sharing partners Sinn Féin deteriorate. Republicans have warned of a crisis facing the devolved administration after a summer of violence on the streets. The European Union had offered the money, but after talks with the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, the body responsible for allocating the finance said it had decided...