A police patrol was shot at in Belfast last night – the second night in a row officers have come under fire in the city.

A 62-year-old woman has become the third suspect arrested by detectives investigating the attempted murder of two police officers in the North.

Talks on the policing of Belfast public order events with a history of large-scale unrest have produced a commitment to non-violence, it was revealed.

A man arrested in England in connection with the stabbing of a pensioner in the North has appeared in court today charged with his murder.

A pipe bomb with the capacity to kill has been left close to a primary school in the North.

A man stabbed to death in Co Derry last night has been named.

Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward today appealed for help in tracking down the “thugs” who gunned down two British soldiers at an Army barracks in Co Antrim.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to detail MI5’s future role in the North in a new move to break the deadlock over republican support for policing.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member tonight became the second member of its Stormont team to step down after only serving one term.

Police hunting an armed raider who terrorised a couple and stole a shotgun arrested a suspect today.

IRELAND’S first undergraduate degree programme in criminal justice is to be offered at Waterford Institute of Technology from September.