The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for the “punishment shooting” of a 33-year-old old man in Cork City after claiming he was involved in “unrepublican conduct”.

Police have come under attack at a dissident republican rally in Derry today.

A bomb found in Derry on Sunday night was left outside the family home of a serving police officer, the PSNI has said.

A man has been arrested following a dissident republican rally in the North.

THE dissident republican group the Real IRA has threatened to kill more police officers and declared its opposition to the Queen of England’s first visit to this country next month.

WRITER and Derry resident Jennifer Johnston, speaking in recent weeks, sounded a depressing note of warning about the North.

Sinn Féin is to hold talks with the political representatives of the Real IRA dissident republican paramilitary group, it was confirmed today.

DRUGS, cash and imitation firearms were seized during a Garda crackdown on dissident and criminal activity in Cork.

VIGILANTES who claimed responsibility for a gun murder in Cork last month have threatened to kill other drug dealers in the city.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern has been called on to ensure vigilantes don’t take over the rule of law in Cork.

The father of a 12-year-old schoolboy killed in the Omagh bombing today confirmed he had held face-to-face talks with the political wing of the Real IRA.