Police swooped on fanzine sellers outside Old Trafford at the weekend, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The brutal murder of teenager Marioara Rostas, whose body was uncovered in a shallow grave in the Wicklow Mountains, has shaken even veteran detectives, investigators said.

Trevor Sargent has said he doesn't believe Fianna Fáil leaked the information which led to his resignation.

A man shot dead in church grounds on the border may have met his killer in a bar less than an hour before he was assassinated, it was revealed today.