A former chief of staff of the Real IRA and father of two children died of multiple gunshot wounds his inquest has heard.

SINN FÉIN has condemned a vigilante-style march on Cork’s northside in which a coffin was reportedly thrown into the garden of a house.

BANK employees in Northern Ireland are being put on alert after several bomb attacks in recent months by dissident Irish nationalists.

Police held back noisy demonstrators as the Queen took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

GERRY Adams dismissed republican dissidents as “anti-peace” activists but offered to mediate with them to try and halt the upsurge of violence in the North.

GARDAÍ seized 320 rounds of 9mm ammunition — suitable for Uzi submachine guns — during an operation against dissident republicans yesterday, which also focused on the murder of a convicted drug dealer.

THERE was a warning yesterday that dissident republicans are using the internet to recruit members.

Omagh bomb victims will today urge the US government to help them shut down a website linked to the terror group behind the atrocity.

OMAGH bomb victims will today urge the US Government to help them shut down a website linked to the group behind the blast.

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.

The Omagh bombers should not link their ‘‘vile deeds’’ to the actions of the leaders of the Easter 1916 uprising, Bertie Ahern said today.