A 22-year-old man was arrested in the North today following the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll by dissident republicans.

A 17-year-old boy is due to appear in court today charged with the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in Co Armagh earlier this month.

The North’s police chief paid a moving personal tribute today to the police constable shot dead by dissident republicans and promised his widow that he would never be forgotten.

A country town in the North came to a standstill today for the funeral of the policeman murdered by dissident republicans.

Detectives investigating the attempted murder of two police officers in a landmine attack near the Border arrested three men today.

Hard-line republicans who have forced Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness to step up their personal security are trying to undermine power-sharing plans for the North, Peter Hain said today.

Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and other senior Sinn Féin leaders have had to step up their personal security for fear of attack from hard-line republicans, it emerged tonight.

Three men arrested during a Garda Special Branch investigation into the activities of the Continuity IRA in Co Wexford were charged with membership and other charges at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin tonight.

Two men have been charged with a series of offences after an intelligence operation linked to dissident republicans in the North.

THE alleged activities of the Continuity IRA are a grim reminder of the danger that so-called Republicans still pose to our democracy.

A Tipperary man told the Special Criminal Court today that the front door of a house came down on top of him when gardai raided a house in Limerick where they suspected a meeting of the Continuity IRA was taking place.

One of seven men arrested at a suspected meeting of the Continuity IRA in Limerick, denied that guns were discussed at the meeting, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Gardai in Limerick had information that the Continuity IRA was hiring out guns to criminal elements in the city, a detective garda told the Special Criminal Court today.

A detective garda who took part in a raid on a house in Limerick where a suspected Continuity IRA was taking place, today denied that gardai "hassled" members of Republican Sinn Fein.

A Detective sergeant who took part in a Garda raid on a house in Limerick where a suspected Continuity IRA meeting was taking place has said he saw a number of men move from the front room as gardaí were breaking down the front door.

A Garda Superintendent told the Special Criminal Court today that 27 uniformed and plain clothed gardai took part in a swoop on a house in Limerick city where gardaí believed a meeting of the Continuity IRA was taking place.

Five men held in connection with a probe into the Continuity IRA have been released without charge.

A court heard today that the 1998 mass murder bomb attack on Omagh, Co Tyrone, was carried out jointly by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA Irish Republican terror groups.

The Continuity IRA has admitted responsibility for a bomb attack on a police training college in east Belfast on Tuesday night.

The UUP has demanded that the British Government increase resources for fighting republican dissidents after the Continuity IRA claimed responsible for a bomb attack in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh.