On April 15, 1989, in homes and in pubs all across Ireland, people sat down to watch Liverpool play Nottingham Forest in the semi-final of the FA Cup.

The seven women and three men on the jury were sent out at Preston Crown Court on Monday after hearing more than six weeks of evidence in the case.

One hundred years ago today British troops massacred 379 Indians at Jallianwala Bagh — also known as Amritsar.

The actions of a callous, negligent police force led to the worst stadium-related disaster in English sports history. Three decades later, the fight for justice for the 96 victims goes on, writes Daniel McConnell.

Former Sheffield Wednesday secretary Graham Mackrell was found guilty of failing to discharge his duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Liverpool will mark the 29th anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy with a minute's applause and special '96' mosaic at Saturday's home match against Bournemouth.

No charges will be brought against two former West Midlands Police officers who were being investigated for their role in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.

An application to lift a stay on the prosecution of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield will be heard in court today.

Investigators probing the Hillsborough disaster are reviewing evidence relating to five more suspects.

In Britain, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will not bring charges against two further suspects referred by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

"Nobody must ever go through what our families have gone through."

Six men charged following an investigation into the Hillsborough disaster can go on trial at Preston Crown Court, a judge has ruled.

Death threats, persecution, and hostility were all part of the drawn-out battle for justice for the victims of the 1989 disaster, Professor Phil Scraton tells Daniel McConnell

Former chief constable Sir Norman Bettison has appeared in court for the first time as a suspect today almost 30 years on from the deaths of 96 men, women and children in the Hillsborough disaster.

There was no "fair or reasonable basis" for taking the draconian step of forcing South Yorkshire chief constable David Crompton out of office, the High Court in England has heard.

April 15, 1989 was the day George Hamilton went to cover an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough and, with John Giles, ended up on air for two hours reporting live for RTÉ on an unfolding disaster that would take the lives of 96 people.

A 50-year-old man has been charged with a public order offence after a pub-goer was seen wearing a T-shirt mocking the Hillsborough disaster.

Joe Smith was eight years old when he was caught up in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

The wife of the match commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster has said that she and her husband are also going through a "terrible" ordeal.

Lawyers acting for the families of the Hillsborough disaster victims are to press ahead with legal action against South Yorkshire Police and West Midlands Police over the “widespread police cover-up” which had attempted to blame fans.

In a statement the law firm said that families believed "justice will only be established through accountability".

In a witness statement submitted to the Hillsborough Independent Panel, Mr Naylor told how he saw fans caught up in a "terrific crush" just after kick-off at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989.

Members of the public attend a commemorative event at St George's Hall in Liverpool, to mark the outcome of the Hillsborough inquest which ruled that 96 Liverpool fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster were unlawfully killed.

The Sun newspaper has come under fire for not mentioning the Hillsborough inquest verdict on the front page.

Families of the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster declared that justice had finally been done as an inquest jury ruled the victims had been unlawfully killed in a tragedy caused by police blunders.

The jury also ruled that fan behaviour did not cause or contribute to the tragedy.

Police planning errors "caused or contributed to" the dangerous situation that developed on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, the jury has concluded.

The jury in the inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster has retired to consider its verdicts, two years after the hearings began.

Hooliganism was the “scourge” of football in the 70s and 80s – but no one claims it caused the Hillsborough disaster, the inquest heard.

The football community around the world took time today to remember the victims of the Hillsborough disaster

Hillsborough police chief David Duckenfield has told the jury into the inquests of 96 Liverpool fans he was “a new and inexperienced match commander” faced with “unimaginably difficult and fast-moving circumstances”.

Three men have been arrested after drugs seizures in the North.