A group of over 600 Aer Lingus and Dublin Airport Authority pensioners are taking legal action claiming their pension entitlements have been cut under a pension scheme restructuring.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland Martin McGuinness carried the coffin of a veteran republican at his funeral in the North yesterday.

One of the North’s best known republicans, Martin Meehan, died today.

A former IRA commander has become the second high-profile Sinn Fein member to honour soldiers who died while fighting for Britain at the Battle of the Somme.