A Donegal man wrongly arrested in a botched murder investigation searched his garden with a torch for spies because he was so traumatised by the police interrogation, the Morris tribunal heard today.

A mother of 10 who was abducted and shot dead by the IRA nearly 34 years ago was officially cleared today of allegations that she was an informer.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley is to meet the mother of Columba McVeigh, one of a number of people abducted by the IRA whose body has not been found.

Hundreds of mourners will today pay their final respects to one of the towering figures of the North's peace process.

Renowned Northern Ireland human rights campaigner Monsignor Denis Faul died today after a long battle with cancer.

A CORK woman’s selfless bravery in leaping into the River Lee to save a drowning person earned her the annual courage award from the Irish security industry yesterday.

New tests will be carried out today on a body pulled from a canal in a bid to confirm it is a suspected IRA murder victim.

I WAS horrified by the insulting language used by the president of our nearest neighbour, Mrs Mary McAleese, when she said Protestants were being taught to hate Catholics.

The British government was challenged today to apologise to the six men wrongfully convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings.

RELATIVES of IRA murder victim Jean McConville — shot in 1972 for helping a dying British soldier — were last night urged to unite around their mother’s grave.

Relatives of IRA murder victim Jean McConville – shot in 1972 for helping a dying British soldier – were tonight urged to unite around their mother’s grave.

THE father of an Armagh man missing since May has rubbished IRA assertions they had nothing to do with his disappearance.

Former Primate of all-Ireland, Cardinal Cathal Daly, is receiving the Freedom of the City of Bobbio in northern Italy today.