Two men and a woman were being questioned tonight following a major security operation close to the border against suspected dissident republican terrorists.

Three people have been arrested following a major security operation in Derry.

Police in the North have arrested a man suspected of having links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.

Gerry Adams today welcomed the release of Seán Ó Muireagáin but said British intelligence and journalists had questions to answer about reports following his arrest at the weekend in Israel.

The Irish journalist who was wrongfully arrested and detained by the Israeli authorities for four days was reunited with his family in Belfast today.

The Irish journalist who was wrongfully arrested and detained by the Israeli authorities for four days is due to give a press conference in his native Belfast today.

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with a shooting in Co Derry last month.

A Belfast man was charged tonight with blackmail and membership of a proscribed organisation.

A man has been arrested after police foiled a major blackmailing racket in north Belfast, it emerged tonight.

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Neath have closed the gap on Munster to 10 points early in the second half of their Celtic League final in Cardiff.

Eight men are expected in court today charged with terrorist offences in the North.

A man is due to appear in Ballymena magistrates court later today in connection with the death of a woman earlier this month.

Two women aged 19 and 44 are due in court in the North today in connection with the discovery of an alleged bomb-making factory in a housing estate in Co Antrim on Friday.

Feared loyalist terror chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was today handed the damning dossier of evidence which put him back behind bars.

Two men from West Belfast were charged today with assisting the murders of a civilian who worked on an army base in the city.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in the North in connection with the murder of a man in North Belfast last Friday.

Police probing a major loyalist paramilitary weapons dump in Northern Ireland tonight charged a man with possessing guns and explosives.

Sinn Fein's head of administration of Stormont, Denis Donaldson, has been charged with possessing documents likely to be useful to terrorists.

One of the top loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast was today charged with gun offences following a major security operation.

A leading UDA man has been arrested in north Belfast. He is being questioned by police after a gun was found in his car.

The Loyalist Ulster Defence Association leader in the North has been arrested on the outskirts of Belfast city as part of a police operation.

Police in the North investigating the murder of a civilian workman at a Territorial Army camp in Derry today arrested two men.

Police were expected to make more arrests today following the trouble at Drumcree which left 31 police officers injured.

Sinn Fein has labelled this morning’s arrest of a senior Republican in Co Tyrone as a stunt.

A man arrested in connection with a break-in at Northern Ireland’s highest security police station has been charged with having documents likely to be useful to terrorists, police said.

Police in the North have released two of the six people who were arrested in connection with the recent break-in at Castlereagh police station.

Detectives were today questioning six people over a raid on Northern Ireland’s highest-security police station including a civilian who worked there.

Police are still holding six people in the North in relation to the Castlereagh break-in last month.

The theft of top secret documents from Special Branch is a huge setback in the fight against paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland, a former MI5 agent claimed tonight.

The Northern Secretary has named the two men who will oversee his review into the Castlereagh break-in.

The Government has reacted to the break-in at Castlereagh Police Station in Belfast.

The North's Chief Constable has insisted that documents stolen from Special Branch offices in east Belfast on Sunday did not include the names of informants.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid was today announcing the person who will head an external probe into the theft of confidential Special Branch documents detailing anti-terrorist intelligence by secret agents.

One man in his 40s was held in Co Monaghan and the other, who is in his 30s, was picked up in neighbouring Co Louth.

Four men have been arrested and a rocket launcher made safe during a security operation in a republican area of the North.

A 54-year-old man is due to appear before Belfast magistrates court on Monday charged in connection with an arms’ find in the North.

Police are still questioning three men about an arms find in west Belfast which has been linked to the Real IRA.

Police in the North have arrested four people and recovered a number of weapons during a search in west Belfast today.

Police in the North have arrested four people and recovered a number of weapons during a search in west Belfast today.

Police in the North have said a weapons seizure in Coleraine, Co Antrim, last night was linked to loyalist paramilitaries.

Loyalist terrorists have been foiled by police who seized guns during a security operation in Co Derry, it emerged today.

The RUC have arrested a man in the Loyalist Shankill area of Belfast today under suspicion of committing bomb offences.