AN IRISH-BORN entrepreneur has chosen today, St Patrick’s Day, for the launch of a “big kick” whiskey he hopes will eventually take America by storm.

RUC sources in Co Tyrone say they believe the INLA was responsible for the murder of a man in Strabane on October 29.

A protestant shot dead by republican gunmen in front of his catholic girlfriend in Northern Ireland was a former loyalist paramilitary prisoner, it was disclosed today.