There was widespread uncertainty today regarding today's announcement from the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) that it is to end to its 30-year campaign of republican violence in the North.

A man from the North denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he was an INLA member when he was arrested by gardaí investigating a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

One of three men accused of INLA membership told gardaí that he did not know two men who last month pleaded guilty to membership of the same organisation, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Waterford man was given a four-year suspended prison sentence for INLA membership by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

There have been "no cases" of people being intimidated with baseball bats in Waterford city since the arrest of two local men accused of INLA membership, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

REPUBLICANS must do more to end the suffering of families whose loved ones mysteriously vanished during Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the SDLP said yesterday.