Latest: Relatives of victims of a former loyalist paramilitary commander turned supergrass watched on this morning as Gary Haggarty pleaded guilty to 200 terrorist offences, including five murders.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Northern Ireland.

The Garda smearing of a murdered man's name ranks among the most shameful episodes of the Irish state, Dublin's High Court has been told.

Two former British soldiers are to be prosecuted for allegedly murdering an Official IRA man in the North.

Families of six men murdered by loyalist gunmen in a Northern Ireland pub have hailed a watchdog investigation that exposed significant police collusion with the killers for finally delivering "the truth".

The North's security forces were guilty of significant collusion in the loyalist murders of six Catholic men gunned down while watching a World Cup football match, a police watchdog in the North has found.

Prosecutors yesterday dropped the charges against the bricklayer accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bomb.

A pernicious narrative seeking to blame the State for almost every atrocity in the North's Troubles must be challenged, the British Government has said.

A man has been granted bail after appearing in court charged with an IRA bomb attack on a Tyrone police station that was intercepted by the SAS.

Six decades after a controversial World Amateur Road Race, Ryle Dwyer looks at a series of stunts at cycling events by militant Irish republicans

A former policeman who is one of three men sought in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea football fans on a Paris Metro train has apologised for his involvement.

The North’s deputy chief constable has rejected claims officers have deliberately delayed the disclosure of top secret material for legacy inquests to protect former colleagues.

Two men arrested in connection with the murder of a former IRA supergrass have been released.

A Police Ombudsman investigation into the Omagh bombing which killed 29 people will be published imminently, it was revealed.

A Northern Ireland policing watchdog has found no evidence the Royal Ulster Constabulary was involved in a loyalist gun attack on Gerry Adams 30 years ago.

Northern Ireland’s chief constable will retire at the end of June, two months earlier than planned, he has announced.

A Co Down-born police commander has seen off competition from senior officers in London and Dublin to be named the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s new Chief Constable.

Two dissident republicans have failed to overturn their convictions for murdering police constable Stephen Carroll in the North in 2009.

The North’s chief constable has said criticism of his force’s arrest of Gerry Adams was unfair and inappropriate.

Gerry Adams will undergo a fourth day of questioning by detectives over the 1972 murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville.

Martin McGuinness has reiterated his belief that the arrest of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams was politically motivated, accusing members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland of being against the peace process.

‘Drop-goal on. Drop-goal taken. Drop-goal good!’ Michael Kiernan is one of only a few people who know what it’s like to get the score to beat England to win the Triple Crown.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson has accused his predecessor Ian Paisley of going down a “dangerous road” with his claims that the Government provoked one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles.

The Rev. Ian Paisley has effectively accused the Irish Government of provoking the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which claimed the lives of 33 people.

ALL shopping records were broken in Dublin in the run-up to Christmas 1954. In the midst of the hectic shopping bonanza, however, there was alarm when baby Patrick Berrigan was kidnapped the Saturday before Christmas.

The family of a woman murdered and secretly buried by the IRA is to sue the North’s security forces over alleged failures in the handling of the case.

Families of Omagh bomb victims have vowed to take the Irish and British governments to court if they continue to refuse to hold a public inquiry into the attack.

Britain breached the human rights of relatives of two IRA men by failing to promptly investigate their deaths at the hands of the SAS, a European court has ruled.

Killings by British troops in Northern Ireland are to be re-examined after a major report claimed investigators were not rigorous enough in their questioning of members of the security forces.

British security services tried to frame a Garda sergeant over the murder of two senior police officers from the North to distract attention from their own collusion, an inquiry has heard.

A niece of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams did not reveal the full extent of alleged sex abuse to which she was subjected to spare her mother's feelings, she told a court today.

Sinn Féin veteran Francie Molloy insisted his party colleague Martin McGuinness would be a hard act to follow after winning the Westminster seat vacated by Stormont’s deputy First Minister.

Voters in Mid Ulster go to the polls today in a Westminster by-election contest that has become heavily associated with a historic Troubles murder.

During the first half of the last century, 163 people were officially executed throughout the island — 149 in the 26 counties, and 14 in the North.

The Irish Government should trawl its documents archive to support the family of a solicitor murdered by Northern Ireland loyalists with state support, it was claimed.

A man who lost his father, after the IRA killed Remembrance Sunday worshippers, marked the 25th anniversary of the attack by appealing for no return to violence.

The decision to charge a leading republican with IRA membership was politically motivated, Sinn Féin claimed today.

Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently held over the murder of a Northern Ireland prison officer, is at the centre of a challenge to the European Court of Human Rights which could force a change in the laws governing the length of time terror suspects can be held.

Police on both sides of the Irish border must launch fresh investigations into the murder of two top RUC officers following intelligence reports of Garda collusion in the killings, the family of one of the men has said.

A person who gave information leading to police shooting dead an unarmed IRA man in Northern Ireland almost 20 years ago was later murdered, an inquest preliminary heard today.

Police officers from around the world attended a church service in Belfast today marking the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).

Dissident republicans convicted of murdering a policeman in the North robbed his widow of her soulmate, a court heard today.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims will tomorrow hold talks with Northern Ireland Secretary of State Owen Paterson on a new report they commissioned into the atrocity.

The widow of a murdered PSNI officer said she felt pity for his killers as she watched them being convicted and jailed for life.