More victims of the sectarian hatred that drove a gang to beat a Catholic schoolboy to death are going undetected, Northern Ireland‘s Chief Constable warned tonight.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today described the murder of a Catholic schoolboy in Northern Ireland as a "shocking reminder of the evils of sectarianism".

Five people were today being questioned about the brutal murder of a schoolboy savagely beaten in a sectarian attack in the North.

Police in the North have launched a murder investigation following the death of a Catholic teenager who was attacked by loyalists in Co Antrim over the weekend.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley has condemned those responsible for the sectarian killing of a teenager in his constituency over the weekend.