I THINK I may have found a new source of renewable energy not previously explored to its fullest. Were I not feeling so insanely irritable I would sit down and tell you all about it in a nice calm manner, with relaxed body language and an easy smile. However, given how cranky I am right now, I will instead explain my brainwave through gritted teeth.

Last weekend 17,000 people turned out in Limerick for the launch of the 20th anniversary tour of Riverdance. So where were you when Michael Flatley and Jean Butler took to the Eurovision stage that night in 1994?

Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years, was killed today as rebel troops overran the last pockets of loyalist resistance in his home-town Sirte.

The death of ex-Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi paves the way for the settlement of legal claims by IRA victims in the North, the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

A footprint found at a major dissident republican arms dump belongs to a man charged by detectives investigating the murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh, a court heard today.

A five-year-old girl was among crowds of spectators gathered just yards from the car bomb which killed Pc Ronan Kerr before it went off, a police photograph revealed today.

Detectives investigating the murder of Police Constable Ronan Kerr are questioning a man in the North today.

POLICE hunting the killers of Ronan Kerr arrested a suspect after discovering a “significant” haul of arms, including rocket launcher components and detonators.

AN agreement by Libyan leader colonel Gaddafi to pay IRA victims billions of pounds for his role in supplying the Provos with arms and explosives has been put in jeopardy by the current unrest in the country.

THE Government secretly forged trade links with Libya in the 1970s, while privately acknowledging the north African state was arming the IRA.

Members of all political parties will be asked to back IRA victims’ compensation case against Libya during the first session of the Northern Ireland Assembly today.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was today forced to offer his support to IRA victims seeking compensation from Libya, after outrage greeted the revelation that he had told them it would not be “appropriate” for him to get involved.

Gardaí investigating an explosives find in Co Meath last night have recovered guns and ammunition during a number of follow up searches today.

A republican gang that launched a failed rocket attack against three community police officers must be taken off the streets, investigators said today.

A man was arrested after dissident republicans fired a grenade at policemen in the North.

A police shoot-to-kill policy against dissident republican terrorists would be accepted by the community in the North, Policing Board member Ian Paisley Jnr claimed today.

SEMTEX explosives once owned by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) were used in a weekend rocket attack on police officers in the north, it was revealed.

Semtex explosives once owned by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) was used in a weekend rocket attack on police officers in the North, it was revealed today.

Singer Corinne Bailey Rae has been nominated for three Mobo Awards.

Madonna can breathe a sigh of relief after a Czech explosives firm cancelled plans to sue her for copyright infringement.

Madonna may be forced to reconsider calling her new company Semtex Girls, because a Czech company is considering legal action over copyright infringement.

ARE we supposed to be grateful? Are we now supposed to flock in our thousands to vote for Sinn Féin? Are we supposed to acknowledge and accept what Martin McGuinness and others call this “truly historic moment”? Well, count me out.

FOR three weeks in September, General John de Chastelain and his two colleagues on the international decommissioning body were driven around in a van with blacked-out windows to secret places where vast quantities of IRA arms awaited them.

The IRA is believed to have kept secure much of its arsenal since it announced the second ceasefire in 1997, though some of it was secreted away following a split in the ranks that year.

Lemar leads the way at this year’s Mobo Awards with five nominations.

SOMETHING more sinister than ethnic cleansing is happening at the moment in the North, according to Deputy Chief Constable Paul Leighton.

“HOW can they say to wee Paddy, on the border with his AK47, who has spent 27 years shooting at soldiers and pickers (police): ‘Give us your AK47, you don’t need it any more’?” was the cynical reaction of UDA brigadier Jackie McDonald in his office in a prisoners’ drop-in centre at the heart of the Protestant Sandy Row in south Belfast.

Loyalists today greeted the IRA’s statement with suspicion and expressed concern over the motives behind the historic announcement.

THE BALKANS were last night being named as the possible source of the explosive material used in the London bombings.

The leader of the Real IRA in Munster was jailed for five years and nine months, his second in command was jailed for four years and three other members of a Real IRA active service unit were given sentence ranging from three years to four years at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

DEAR Santa, please pass over the chimneys of all those winking idiots who have exposed you and the rest of us to the shock/horror effects of their garishly lit houses.

THE former Irish girlfriend of a jailed Syrian-backed bomb plotter has vowed to halt British authorities from freeing him on parole.

The Mobo Awards take place in Britain tonight as organisers hope nothing else goes wrong after the ceremony was plunged into crisis when host, NERD star Pharrell Williams, pulled out with only days to go.

Two Limerick men were jailed by the Special Criminal Court today for offences connected with the discovery of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, ammunition and Semtex at a house in the city last year.

A fingerprint expert told the Special Criminal Court today that a fingermark on a paper bag found in a house in Limerick where gardaí discovered ammunition and explosives matched the fingerprint of the accused man.

THE gardaí are thought to have established where most of the IRA arms dumps are located in the country.

A Limerick detective told the Special Criminal Court today that it was an "extremely" dangerous task to raid a house in the city where gardaí suspected there were firearms, ammunition and explosives.

Gardai discovered Semtex explosives and assorted ammunition when they raided a house in Limerick city last November, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

ONE of two men arrested yesterday in an operation against suspected members of the Real IRA served a long prison service for his involvement in an armed robbery that led to a businessman being shot.

The alleged leader of the Real IRA in Munster was caught "red handed" in a bomb factory, a senior garda officer told the Special Criminal Court today.

Three IRA suspects accused of training Colombian guerrillas were due to go on trial tomorrow in a case which could put huge new pressure on the Northern Ireland peace process.