Campaigners blocking the M3 motorway near Tara in Co Meath may form a political protest party to run at the next general election, it emerged today.

A garda has told a rape trial at the Central Criminal Court that he didn’t know who interfered with a statement of medical evidence in the book of evidence.

A gun attack on a Co Armagh family was today being treated by police as attempted murder.

The British government has announced that its planned inquiry into the loyalist murder of Co Armagh solicitor Rosemary Nelson will begin public hearings next month.

A Northern Ireland man arrested at a Co Monaghan farmyard made no reply when questioned by Special Branch detectives about the activities of dissident republicans, the Special Criminal Court was told today.

The Special Criminal Court today refused to discharge itself from trying the case of three Armagh men accused of membership of a dissident republican organisation.