The British army shooting of a father of six after the van he was driving backfired outside a police station in the North was not necessary, reasonable or proportionate, a coroner has ruled.

Police in the North say a potential suspect in the murder of 10 people there has been identified 40 years after the attack.

British military logs from the day an 11-year-old boy was hit by a rubber bullet in Belfast in 1972 have been cut up, a coroner's court has been told.

The owner of a trawler which sank off the North Coast with the loss of his father and uncle has hit out at the Dublin-based authorities over what he claimed was their failure to carry out a proper inquiry into the tragedy.

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.

A savage beating in north Belfast which killed a radio DJ was sanctioned by senior members of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association, police told an inquest today.

The North's Minister of Health is to be urged by a coroner to take action to ensure prescription drug addicts cannot get multiple scripts by registering with more than one GP.

A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.

A Derry pensioner was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack yards from his home, an inquest heard today.

A man who died when he fell under a newspaper delivery van on Belfast’s Westlink in the middle of the night had just discharged himself from hospital before being treated for injuries suffered in another drunken fall, an inquest heard today.

A homeless man died from a drugs overdose days after being prescribed tablets by up to three different doctors, an inquest heard today.

A man walked into a police station after a heavy drinking session and announced to police he had stabbed his friend to death, an inquest heard today.

A Northern Ireland man died from hospital-acquired infection including the MRSA superbug, a jury found today.

No lifeguards were protecting a popular Northern Ireland beach when a Tourist Board chief drowned while body boarding in midsummer, an inquest heard today.

A bull gored its owner to death in a rage at being driven out of a field of cows, an inquest heard today.