A banner against a Sinn Fein election candidate and his family has been taken down in North Belfast.

LAST year’s runners-up, Dublin, advance to the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC final after defeating Laois (1-8 to 0-9) in a pulsating encounter at Carlow’s Dr Cullen Park on Saturday.

Families of people killed by British soldiers during the North's Troubles urged the British army today to call off a contentious parade for troops returning from Afghanistan.

Relatives of plastic bullet victims in Northern Ireland are to launch a legal challenge to the introduction of a new version of the weapon, it emerged today.