Ulster secretary Danny Murphy has hit out at how media treated claims by a safety official that the proposed Casement Park could suffer a tragedy similar to the Hillsborough Disaster.

The North's Labour Relations Agency has been urged to intervene after talks between Ulster Television management and union representatives over threatened job losses broke down today.

A row erupted at the Northern Ireland Assembly today between the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Fein over disturbances in Lurgan which followed the Armagh’s historic All-Ireland Final triumph.