A detective sergeant has identified Frederick 'Freddie' Thompson as the man in one of four ‘spotter’ cars allegedly used in the killing of a Dublin shoe shop manager.

William Whitelaw, former British deputy prime minister and the first Northern Ireland secretary, believed power-sharing in the region could lead to a united Ireland, newly declassified State papers reveal.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

A 15-year-old boy has been remanded in custody charged with the murder of a young Dublin man who died following a fatal Halloween stabbing last year.

HAVING wowed London’s West End, actress Lisa Dwan brings her acclaimed Samuel Beckett trilogy to Galway’s Taibhdhearc theatre next week, as part of the Galway Arts Festival. It will be a spiritual homecoming.

The AGSI has told the Government “not to throw the baby out with the bathwater” in parachuting a police officer from another country in as commissioner.

A ‘tick list’ of drug debtors and creditors found on a murder victim had no reference to any of the men on trial for his murder at the Central Criminal Court.

A murder trial has heard that senior gardaí had unrecorded meetings with one of the main suspects and explained the Witness Protection Programme to him before he gave them any information on the killing.

A senior garda has told a murder trial that he did not follow regulations for handling informants when he dealt with the case’s chief prosecution witness.

A drug dealer-turned State witness in a murder trial has denied being a Garda informer for several years before the Dublin killing.

Former police officers have urged the North's Chief Constable Matt Baggott to launch a new inquiry into the Claudy bomb atrocity after challenging some of the Ombudsman’s findings into the 1972 outrage which left nine people dead.

A POLICE investigation into a Catholic priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing was stopped after senior officers conspired with the government and Church to protect him, a shock report has revealed.

The Claudy bombings of July 31, 1972, in which nine innocent people – five Catholics and four Protestants – were killed in Co Derry are now history, but they have an immediacy with the publication yesterday of the report of the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman, Al Hutchinson.

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation today after it emerged the police, British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today that the British Government was “profoundly sorry” that the victims of the 1972 Claudy bombing and their families had been denied justice.

A police investigation into a Catholic priest suspected over the 1972 Claudy bomb outrage was stopped after senior officers conspired with the British government and Catholic Church to protect him, a shock new report revealed today.

AFTER 18 months of thinking about it, 12 months of planning and about six months of intense training, two Mullingar men have completed the challenge of a lifetime by running 32 marathons in 32 days.

MARGARET Thatcher complained in private about the numbers of immigrants coming to Britain from south Asia, saying they were being given council houses at the expense of “white citizens”, it was disclosed yesterday.

TWO men were jailed yesterday for a “vicious, brutal and cowardly” attack on former Celtic captain Neil Lennon.

Two Rangers fans were found guilty today of assaulting former Celtic captain Neil Lennon.

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Former British Tory party grandee Lord Whitelaw may have been involved in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice while Northern Ireland Secretary more than 30 years ago, it was claimed tonight.

The British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in an astonishing cover-up to shield a priest suspected of heading-up the IRA team responsible for one of Northern Ireland’s worst ever bomb atrocities, police claimed today.