An investigation team is to be set up in London to probe alleged state involvement in sectarian murders in the North, it emerged today.

A bomb threat shut down an entire Virginia school district today, cancelling classes for more than 7,000 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in religious schools and child care centres in the area.

IT was hard not to feel sorry for Co Carlow at Thomond Park on Saturday when a late Shannon try, giving them a 25-12 win, deprived the Leinster side even a bonus point in their third-last match in Division One of the AIB All-Ireland League.

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A SPECIAL unit being set up within the PSNI to review nearly 2,000 unsolved murders over 30 years is expected to take up to six years to carry out its task.

A former police special branch informer today admitted the murder of prominent Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

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One of four former public schoolboys tried in connection the death of an 18-year-old student was cleared today of manslaughter.

A prosecuting barrister in the Brian Murphy manslaughter trial has urged the jury to leave all feeling of sympathy aside and to decide the outcome of the case on the evidence it heard in the witness box.

The ambulance that took Brian Murphy to hospital after he had been violently beaten outside the Burlington Hotel was slow to take him away because they thought he was intoxicated with drink, a witness has told the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A student who died after a fight outside a nightclub was seen goading and hitting one of four youths accused of killing him, a court heard today.

Carlow and DLSP will both be bidding to win their first Leinster Senior Cup at Donnybrook this evening (7pm).

Carlow continued their rise through the ranks of Irish rugby with this hard-earned away win against Terenure at Lakelands Park.