A key prosecution witness in the trial of a Dublin man charged with the murder of Wayne Doherty has denied that the IRA threatened to kill him if he did not give evidence in court.

New York emergency workers who bore the brunt of the September 11 terror attacks were leaving for Northern Ireland today on a fact-finding mission.

FAMILIES of people killed in the Omagh bomb massacre yesterday remembered their dead and they also remembered the victims of last year's September 11 terror atrocities in the United States.