The O2 in Dublin is paying for 23 Gardaí to police tonight's Hardwell gig.

CONSERVATIVES yesterday accused British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith of “blunder, panic and cover-up” over the granting of clearance for up to 5,000illegal immigrants to work as security guards.

Powers preventing the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission from raising questions about the intelligence services were today criticised by a committee of MPs and peers.

The British government plans to end paramilitary infiltration of the North's private security industry will see regulations widened to include bouncers and even wheel clampers, it emerged today.