A funeral service for a Catholic police officer gunned down by dissident republicans will take place in the North today.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has praised the approach taken by loyalist groups after the killings of two British soldiers and a member of the PSNI.

Detectives investigating the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll were tonight granted an extra five days to question a teenager and man arrested on Tuesday.

The widow of the Catholic policeman murdered by dissident republican gunmen has made an emotional plea for his death to be the last in the North's conflict.

The Garda Commissioner has said detectives from south of the border will meet regularly with their counterparts in the North to bring the dissident republicans behind the three recent murders to justice.