The IRA today denied any involvement in the £22m (€31.4m) Northern Bank raid.

A consultation process for Garda reform is expected after the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell unveiled proposals to modernise the force.

The British government is to be urged in the North's Assembly to make a judgment on the status of the IRA’s ceasefire.

It is thought that the Fermanagh Assemblyman, Sam Foster, will resign from the North's Dept of the Environment as part of a reshuffle by First Minister, David Trimble.

The North's police ombudsman, Nuala O’Loan, has given a broad welcome to the North’s Police Board’s recommendation to appoint an officer from outside the PSNI to play a key role in the investigation into the Omagh bombing.

An island-wide alert has gone out after a spate of admissions to Belfast hospitals of people suffering from contaminated ecstacy tablets.

The SDLP has described as "reckless and ill-judged" the comments of the RUC Chief Constable regarding the use of plastic bullets during recent disturbances in the North.