Four people suspected of plotting and assisting the abduction and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney last September are being questioned in a cross-border operation.

Four people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the abduction and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney in September.

Chris Patten said he did not object to fair prosecutions of former soldiers or others.

A 52-year-old man has been charged with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said.

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential dissident republican plot to blow up a lorry due to cross the Irish Sea on Brexit day.

George Hamilton will be "locked up" on Friday as part of a charity challenge to highlight the plight of the estimated 40 million people held in slavery around the world.

Gardaí investigating the assault on Kevin Lunnery have announced that they have completed their search today in the Ballinagh area of Cavan.

The 14 men were hooded, beaten and deprived of sleep, food and water while being held without trial in the North in 1971.

A senior executive in the companies once owned by billionaire Sean Quinn sustained life-changing injuries when he was abducted and beaten by a masked gang, police have said.

A man has been arrested over the 2004 murder of a man outside a school in Co Antrim.

A Dublin man accused of IRA membership has been released on bail by the non-jury Special Criminal Court today.

The head of the Scottish Police Federation has said that while it is possible, it is not probable that Scottish police would be called upon to operate in Northern Ireland.

He has been taken to hospital and his condition is described as stable.

Two Dublin men have appeared before an out-of-term sitting of the non-jury Special Criminal Court this evening charged with IRA membership.

Anti-terrorism chiefs in the North have welcomed the arrest by Gardaí of two suspected dissident republicans in connection with an attempt to murder a PSNI officer last June.

The booby-trap bomb in Co Fermanagh, near the Cavan border, led the PSNI to say dissident groups were showing an “increased capability”, which it describing as “extremely worrying”.

Police in Belfast were forced to abandon a bid to dismantle a bonfire planned in the city last night following a stand off with republican youths.

A 60-year-old man has been charged with the 1994 murder of Francis Damien Kerr in Newry and membership of a proscribed organisation, the Police Service of Northern Ireland has said.

Gardaí have teamed up with the PSNI in an operation aimed at tackling fish poaching in Strabane.

It was the prosecution's case that DNA evidence linked Darren Weldon to a number plate found in the debris of a car bomb which exploded outside Newry courthouse on February 22, 2010.

Firefighters saw a "significant decrease" in the number of emergency calls due to loyalist bonfires in Northern Ireland at the start of the Twelfth of July festivities.

Last week, the Derry senior footballers took their training session into a city club for the first time ever. Declan Bogue tracks the societal, religious, cultural, and economic reasons why the city has always been prevented from fulfilling its potential in the GAA world.

In a joint statement last night, both governments referred to its previous communique of April 26 and the “new phase of political talks in Northern Ireland”.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Police investigating the deaths of three teenagers in a crush outside a disco have done a good job, a senior officer has said.

Fond tributes have been paid to the victims of a St Patrick's Day party crush as their school friends gathered for a day of funerals.

Two men have died after separate incidents in the Mourne Mountains in the North today.

The incumbent had said he had to fly to Northern Ireland last May as the Northern Irish Police Service could not provide the required security by road.

Double killer Colin Howell has been questioned by police about a new claim of sexual assault.

Latest: Two men questioned on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in Belfast have been released on bail.

Online comments posted by a juror in the Ulster rugby rape trial are being investigated by the North’s attorney general.

Three people have been injured during a suspected stabbing in Co Down.

A postman has been threatened with a screwdriver and robbed in north Belfast.

A car fire which sparked a security alert in Northern Ireland was the result of a mechanical fault, police have confirmed.

An 88-year-old widow in Co. Down scammed out of thousands was left unable to eat or heat her home, her son has said.

A fourth victim has been reported dead in a ferocious house fire in Fermanagh, a detective investigating the claim said.

Detectives investigating the murder of a man in front of his partner and an 11-year-old child have made an arrest under the Terrorism Act.

Three men have appeared in court in Northern Ireland on attempted intimidation charges as part of a police investigation into alleged paedophile hunting.

A man widely named as the Army's notorious IRA agent Stakeknife has been released on bail.

A dissident republican group behind dozens of gun and bomb attacks on security forces in Northern Ireland has declared a ceasefire.

The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman is appealing for witnesses after a teenage girl was knocked down and killed following a night out.