A leap year baby who was born suddenly on the M1 motorway will celebrate her first 'official' birthday when she turns four this February 29.

Prosecutors yesterday dropped the charges against the bricklayer accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb.

The case against a man accused of the Omagh bombing in the North which killed 29 people could be dropped, a court in Omagh has heard.

The prosecution case against a high-profile republican charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing is based on phone, forensic and witness evidence, a court has heard.

A republican successfully sued over the Omagh bomb has been remanded in custody charged with murdering the 29 victims of the Real IRA outrage.

Government ministers have apologised to the families of two senior RUC officers killed by the IRA with the help of at least one or more gardaí.

Two of the most senior RUC officers murdered by the IRA in the Troubles were ambushed following a leak from a Garda station, a damning report has found.

Police probing the murder of Robert McCartney in the North have arrested a man.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are launching legal action in a bid to force the British and Irish Governments into granting a full scale cross-border inquiry into the outrage.

The deadline for an inquiry into alleged Garda and IRA collusion in the murder of two senior RUC officers during the Troubles has been extended.

Relatives of some victims of the Omagh bomb are seeking a meeting with a former member of the Police Ombudsman’s office who was called in to investigate after the acquittal of the only man charged with the atrocity.

Police in Newry are appealing for information following a hijacking involving a southern car in Forkhill, Co Armagh.

FAMILIES of Omagh bomb victims have pledged to stick with their marathon legal battle after two men successfully appealed a court ruling that had found them responsible for the 1998 outrage.

An FBI agent whose evidence was crucial in the case against a dissident republican leader found liable for the Omagh bombing is a pathological liar, an appeal court heard today.

Four dissident republicans will today begin a court appeal after they were successfully sued by families bereaved in the Omagh bombing.

The retrial of a building contractor charged over the Omagh bomb atrocity today heard he provided two mobile phones used by terrorists plotting the Real IRA massacre.

The M1 between Newry and and Jonesborough has been closed for a security operation this morning after a suspicious vehicle was discovered.

A man suspected of killing a British undercover soldier in the North more than 30 years ago appeared in court today.

The man cleared of the Omagh bomb massacre appeared in court today charged with drink driving.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims today won a landmark multi-million pound civil action against four men they blamed for the atrocity in which 29 people died.

Omagh bomb relatives will today learn the verdict in their multimillion-pound legal action against those they blame for the killings.

The verdict in a multi million legal action against five men accused of the Omagh bombing will be delivered tomorrow.

Bomb disposal experts in the North are removing what they are describing as a viable device from a road side in Co Armagh.

A republican fugitive arrested for questioning about the murder of British Captain Robert Nairac had been living under an assumed name, it was revealed tonight.

Irish golfer Ann Marie Dalton saved her best for last on Wednesday as she took her first US collegiate individual title in the final tournament of her career with High Point University.

An officer accused of lying during the Omagh bomb trial has been “repositioned” within the PSNI, police said.

The man cleared of the Omagh bomb was challenged today to fully co-operate with a cross border judicial inquiry into the atrocity.

A man was cleared today of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb atrocity.

Omagh murder-accused Sean Hoey has been found not gulity of all charges relating to the Omagh bombing.

The verdict will be delivered today in the trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the North's worst ever terrorist atrocity.

The judge in the Omagh bomb trial is due to deliver his verdict on Thursday.

Solicitors for the parents of Madeleine McCann have no plans to have talks about controversial DNA testing with legal representatives of a man accused of the Omagh bombing, a family spokesman said tonight.

GARDAÍ who investigated the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh will not testify in a civil action by relatives of those who died.

BRUCE Springsteen’s devastation at the death of legendary promoter Jim Aiken was revealed yesterday as the entertainment world turned out for his memorial service.

President Mary McAleese was one of the last people to visit top concert promoter Jim Aiken before his death.

Leading Northern Ireland concert promoter Jim Aiken has died, it was announced tonight.

THE Omagh bomb trial ended yesterday with a call to the judge to acquit the accused.

The Omagh bomb trial ended today with a call to the judge to acquit the accused.

The Omagh bombing was carried out jointly by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA rather than just by the RIRA alone, the trial of the man accused of murdering the 29 victims of the 1998 atrocity was told by an FBI agent today.

The marathon Omagh bomb trial is expected to finish next Tuesday, a lawyer revealed today.

Alleged Omagh bomb mass murderer Sean Hoey turned down the chance to give evidence at his trial today.

A detonator used in a terrorist plot underwent unexplained changes after it was first examined, the Omagh bomb trial heard today.

The Omagh bomb trial reopens today, when the defence team for Sean Hoey, the alleged Real IRA dissident republican, begins its case.

Two of the 58 charges faced by Sean Hoey in the ongoing Omagh bomb trial are to be dropped, a judge in Belfast ruled today.

Unrelated charges against a man accused of making the Omagh bomb are expected to be dropped after a prosecutor admitted to gaps in the evidence.

A key forensic technique used to connect the Omagh bomb suspect to the crime contains ambiguities which may make its results unreliable, a court heard today.

Former IRA man turned British agent Kevin Fulton must be given special protection if he gives evidence at the Omagh bomb trial, a court heard today.

BOMBS made in the run-up to the republican explosion in Omagh, which killed 29 people, were all made by the same person, a witness told a court in Northern Ireland yesterday.

Bombs made in the run-up to the dissident republican explosion in Omagh, which killed 29 people, were all made by the same person, a witness told a court in Northern Ireland today.