A suspect device, later confirmed to be a hoax, was discovered at a Catholic church in Co Antrim today.

A bomb discovered by police in Co. Down was more powerful than the device used by the Real IRA in the Omagh bombing in 1998.

A bomb found near the border contained 500lbs of explosives and was aimed at killing security forces, a politician for the area has said.

Police in the North have come under attack for the second consecutive night as violence flared following Orange Order parades in Belfast.

A paramilitary shooting that left two men with gunshot wounds to their legs was condemned today as a relic of the violent past.