About £200,000 (€293,000) was today stolen from a Belfast bank in a robbery similar to the Northern Bank heist.

A man being questioned about the £26.5m (€39.18m) Northern Bank raid was tonight released without charge.

An employee of the Northern Bank in Belfast was understood to have been arrested today by police investigating the £26.5m (€39m) robbery last Christmas.

Two people were arrested today in connection with the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

A man charged in connection with the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast last Christmas is due in court today.

A 39-year-old man was tonight arrested by detectives investigating the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

Two men were being questioned today about the £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast last December.

Two men are being questioned in connection with the £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast last December, police have said.

Gardaí and the PSNI are reportedly confident that they have traced more than £5m (€7.2m) of the £26.5m (€38.4m) stolen in the Northern Bank robbery just before Christmas.

An armed gang locked up terrified bank workers before escaping with over €100,000 in a raid in Dublin, it was confirmed today.

The Northern Bank has completed the first phase of a programme to replace all its bank notes with new currency in the wake of December's £26.5m (€38m) heist in Belfast.

The Government has reportedly claimed that the Provisional IRA is using money stolen from the Northern Bank in Belfast last year to buy property in the UK.

The cash seized during a recent garda crackdown on suspected IRA money-laundering was linked to the £26.5m (€38m) bank heist in Belfast, according to the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

The £26.5m (€38m) stolen from the Northern Bank in Belfast will become very hard to spend from next week when the bank issues new notes, it was confirmed today.

The Government is convinced that raids carried out by the Gardaí were based on solid information that they were uncovering money from December’s £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank raid, Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said today.

Sinn Féin is incensed by the sanctions against the party announced today by Northern Secretary Paul Murphy, claiming the Secretary of State was out of order.

DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley has said the leaders of "IRA/Sinn Féin" had lied in their responses to recent accusations of criminality and "maligned" their accusers.

There is no prospect of Sinn Féin being involved in the business end of politics after the exposure of a huge money-laundering racket being linked to the IRA, it was claimed today.

Gardaí in Dublin, Cork, Kerry and Offaly have reportedly seized a further £437,000 (€634,000) as part of their investigation into suspected IRA money-laundering.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell and Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy will meet today to discuss the cross-border battle to smash a massive IRA money-laundering racket.

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness tonight stood accused by the Government of being members of the IRA’s ruling Army Council.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny said today that the middle ground needs to be brought back into the peace process.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has made another defence of republicans today insisting they were not involved in the Northern Bank robbery or money laundering.

A man in his 40’s arrested in relation to a massive police investigation into IRA money laundering was today released without charge.

Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said today that the Government is absolutely satisfied that the leadership of the IRA and Sinn Féin are linked.

The North’s Chief Constable, Hugh Orde, has said his position on the Northern Bank Raid has not changed.

The Government will come under fresh pressure today to give Sinn Féin a heavy financial penalty when Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy announces what sanctions will be imposed for the IRA’s audacious Northern Bank robbery.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, has said robbery and money-laundering are not what people voted for in the Good Friday Agreement.

A man in his 40s, who was arrested in Cork after Gardaí received a tip-off that bank notes were being burnt, remains in Garda custody this morning.

It is being reported that officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau have raided a retirement home near Tullamore, Co Offaly, this morning.

A mysterious tip off led to money possibly linked to the massive £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast being found at a police sports club, it emerged tonight.

The £50,000 (€72,000) recovered from the Newforge police club in Northern Ireland was definitely from the Northern Bank robbery, police said tonight.

The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has said that he is disgusted at political and media reports accusing his party of involvement in criminality and money-laundering.

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today revealed the former vice president of Sinn Féin Phil Flynn had not been forced to resign his three high-profile board positions in the public and private sector.

Sinn Féin is organising a series of rallies across the North to oppose what the party has described as attempts to criminalise it.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan has claimed the Sinn Féin leadership had been heavily involved in attempts to obscure police investigations into the killing of Belfast man Robert McCartney and suspected money-laundering.

Labour party leader Pat Rabbitte has claimed there was no indication that the alleged IRA money-laundering ring currently being investigated on both sides of the border and murder of Belfast man Robert McCartney signified a split in republicanism.

Money found last night at a police sports club in Belfast contained Northern Bank notes, police sources have confirmed.

The Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has denied that there is a crisis within his party and said people should co-operate with the garda investigation into alleged money-laundering and subversive activity.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has given his response to the resignation of Phil Flynn as chairman of the decentralisation committee, as a result of a Garda investigation into money-laundering.

A man and a woman arrested in Cork in connection with the massive money-laundering investigation by gardaí have been released without charge.

Forensic officers are carrying out tests on money found in Dublin and Belfast today to see if it is linked to the Northern Bank robbery last month.

A Government adviser tonight resigned from a number of key positions after he was embroiled in a multi-million Euro money-laundering investigation.