The funeral will takes place this morning of the 19-year old Catholic youth shot

The Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has withdrawn comments he made yesterday claiming republicans had murdered 19-year-old Ciaran Cummings in Antrim on Wednesday.

Detectives investigating the murder of Catholic teenager Ciaran Cummings were today examining a black motorcycle they found during a search of a garage on the loyalist Ballycraigy Estate in Antrim.

Security forces in the North have described as "nonsense" the claim by David Trimble, that republicans could be responsible for the death of the Catholic youth shot dead in Antrim yesterday.

UUP leader David Trimble has accused republicans of being behind yesterday's shooting of a 19-year-old Catholic man in Antrim town.

The Northern Ireland Parades Commission was due to announce today if it will overturn a ban on an Orange Order march through a nationalist area of Portadown.

The outlawed loyalist Red Hand Defenders have said they were responsible for this morning's shooting dead of a 19-year-old Catholic man in Antrim this morning.

The Northern Ireland Parades Commission today put on hold a decision whether or not to overturn a ban on this Sunday’s Drumcree Orange march.

Loyalist politicians have said they are 'not jumping to conclusions' about this morning's murder of a young Catholic man in Antrim town.

The 19-year-old Catholic man gunned down today has been named as Ciaran Cummings.