Shawn Pogatchnik

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Belfast man wrongly convicted of IRA bombing dies

Shawn Pogatchnik · June 21, 2014 2:55 pm

Catholic leader seeks Irish probe into mass graves

Shawn Pogatchnik · June 8, 2014 7:41 pm

Irish church under fire over children’s mass grave

Irish church under fire over children’s mass grave

Shawn Pogatchnik · June 3, 2014 9:37 pm

Members of the Fire Service are seen at the scene of a fire bomb at the Everglades Hotel, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Friday, May, 30, 2014. A masked man has thrown what police have described as a" firebomb" device into the main reception of the hotel late Thursday. The device exploded as the British Army were working to make it safe. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

IRA firebomb damages Northern Ireland hotel

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 30, 2014 12:24 pm

NIreland leader retreats from anti-Muslim remarks

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 29, 2014 3:41 pm

Ireland’s Labour leader quits after bad election

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 26, 2014 5:30 pm

Belfast police to sue for all Boston College tapes

Belfast police to sue for all Boston College tapes

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 22, 2014 8:20 pm

Irish justice minister quits in blow to government

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 7, 2014 6:12 pm

Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams speaks to the media in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday May 4, 2014. Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland's unity government. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

AP Analysis: Belfast IRA charge on Adams unlikely

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 5, 2014 2:04 pm

Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams speaks to the media in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday May 4, 2014. Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland's unity government. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Sinn Fein’s Adams freed after 5 days in custody

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 5, 2014 3:22 am

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photo with her mother, Jean McConville, at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Police in Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, over his alleged involvement in the Irish Republican Army's 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of McConville. On Friday, May 2, the senior Sinn Fein politician in Northern Ireland's unity government demanded Adams' immediate release, as police sought to extend his interrogation over McConville's murder. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Belfast police seek evidence of Adams’ IRA past

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 3, 2014 5:18 pm

A man adds the finishing touch to a newly painted mural of Gerry Adams on the Falls Road, West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland, Friday, May, 2 2014. Police continue to question the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams at Antrim police station about the 1972 murder of Jean McConville. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Police get extra 48 hours to question Gerry Adams

Shawn Pogatchnik · May 2, 2014 11:09 pm