Motorsport: Organisers of the Irish Forest Rally Championship received a major boost at their awards ceremony in Clonmel on Saturday night with the announcement that Valvoline will underpin the series for the next three seasons.

Prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy was an innocent victim of a loyalist ambush in the North almost 25 years ago, his lawyer said.

On their debut for the factory Citroen Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team, Dungannon’s Kris Meeke and Killarney’s Paul Nagle netted a podium finish along with a bonus point from the Power Stage of Rallye Monte Carlo, the first round of the World Rally Championship.

Irish pair Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle in their Citroen DS3 WRC made a memorable start to the World Rally Championship and hold second overall after the opening day of an incident-filled Rallye Monte Carlo.

Prominent republican Colin Duffy has been charged with conspiring to murder members of the security forces in the North.

Brian Shivers has today been acquitted of murdering two British soldiers in the North.

The Irish crew of Eamonn Boland/Mickey Joe Morrissey (Subaru) had an untroubled run through the penultimate leg of the Monte Carlo Rally where world champion, Sebastien Loeb (Citroen) seems set for yet another victory.

A man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed should face a retrial, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ordered.

Prosecutors in the North have applied to the Court of Appeal in Belfast to retry a man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed.

A man found guilty of murdering two British soldiers in the North has had his convictions quashed.

Little over a year ago, Irish karting was hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Two men being held in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black were released without charge tonight.

Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently held over the murder of a Northern Ireland prison officer, is at the centre of a challenge to the European Court of Human Rights which could force a change in the laws governing the length of time terror suspects can be held.

The funeral for murdered prison officer David Black will take place on Tuesday, it was confirmed today.

Detectives probing the murder of a prison officer in the North are today questioning three men in connection with the killing.

The murderers of prison officer David Black are “swimming in a sea of criminality and drugs” and “dressing it up” with a flag of political convenience, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last night strongly condemned the murder of prison officer David Black, as it emerged that a third man had been arrested in connection with his death.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a prison officer in Co. Armagh yesterday have arrested a 29-year-old man in Co. Leitrim.

The show of strength by the Real IRA (RIRA) at the funeral of terror boss Alan Ryan has been condemned as "reprehensible" today by Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

A volley of shots were fired over the coffin of murdered Real IRA boss Alan Ryan as he was given a full republican military funeral today.

Families of two murdered British soldiers have paid an emotional visit to the town where they died to unveil a memorial honouring their loved ones.

Eight undercover British soldiers were at the scene of a high-profile killing carried out by loyalist paramilitaries in the North, a dramatic new report has revealed.

A terminally ill dissident republican jailed for murdering two soldiers in the North has today launched a legal bid to overturn his conviction.

A terminally ill dissident republican convicted of murdering two British soldiers will today find out the length of his jail term.

WATERFORD’S Craig Breen (Fiesta S2000) made the best possible start to his SWRC title challenge with a category victory in the Monte Carlo Rally that was won by Citroen’s Sebastien Loeb.

A man cleared of murdering two soldiers in the North has claimed his DNA was planted on a latex glove in the getaway car.

POLICE in the North have vowed that the investigation into the murder of Sappers Patrick Azimkar and Mark Quinsey outside the Massereene barracks in 2009 attack would go on.

A HIGH-PROFILE republican has walked free from a court in the North after being cleared of murdering two British soldiers.

Another prominent republican is to be tried in connection with the Massereene murders, while police suspect at least one more person was involved.

A dissident republican was convicted today of murdering two British soldiers outside an army base in the North.

A high-profile republican was cleared today of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army base in the North.

A man accused of murdering two soldiers is a highly unlikely terrorist, a court heard today.

The discovery of DNA from two men accused of murdering two soldiers inside the getaway car makes them inescapably guilty, a court has heard.

A son of leading republican Dominic McGlinchey was the getaway driver during the murder of two soldiers, a court has heard.

Evidence from soil samples which allegedly links the man accused to the murder of two soldiers will not be admitted to court, a judge ruled this afternoon.

The partner of one of the men accused of murdering two soldiers has told a court today that he was not capable of the crime.

A man accused of murdering two soldiers refused to answer police questions because his solicitor was afraid their consultations were being monitored, a court has heard.

A man accused of the murder of two soldiers made a flurry of phone calls around the time of the killing, a court heard today.

Controversial DNA evidence allegedly linking two men to the murder of two soldiers in the North is to be allowed, a judge ruled today.

Forensic evidence against two men accused of murdering two British soldiers in the North is reliable and proven, a barrister for the prosecution said.

Traces of DNA linking a man to the murders of two British soldiers are at most 100 billion times smaller than a gram, a court has heard.

A DNA expert who testified against two men accused of murdering two British soldiers is prepared to exaggerate and tell partial truths in order to promote his technique, a court was told today.

DNA found in a getaway car used in the shooting of two British soldiers is almost six trillion times more likely to belong to one of the alleged murderers than someone else, a court heard.

A bomb squad officer who was first to examine the car used by gunmen who killed two soldiers in the North said he did not see a latex glove tip said to be at the heart of the case.