A vigil is to be held at 9pm this evening at the spot where Catholic teenager Gerard Lawlor was gunned down by the UDA.

ADVANCED forensic tests are being used as part of a massive new inquiry into more than 20 loyalist and republican murders.

Advanced forensic tests are being used as part of a massive new inquiry into more than 20 loyalist and republican murders.

A 32-year-old woman was today charged with murder following the death of Protestant teenager in north Belfast.

The parents of a young man murdered in Northern Ireland will tonight be among the audience watching the curtain fall on the final performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton’s musical, The Beautiful Game.

A minister in Britain’s Northern Ireland Office has said that the British Government is keeping the UDA’s ceasefire under review in light of upsurge in attacks against Catholics this year.

The RUC has issued a fresh terror alert for every GAA club and grounds in the North.

Loyalist paramilitaries have warned they will step up their terror campaign.

Police in Northern Ireland today defended their handling of a loyalist paramilitary group’s show of strength on Belfast’s Shankill Road at the weekend.

A 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with the murder of Gavin Brett.

A 36-year-old man is due before Belfast Magistrate's Court today charged with the murder of Gavin Brett.

Police today arrested two men in connection with the murder of Gavin Brett, the Protestant teenager shot dead on Sunday night.

Police investigating the murder of 18-year-old Gavin Brett on Sunday night today arrested two men from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, an RUC spokesman said.

Police in Northern Ireland were tonight ordered to make a fresh assessment of a loyalist paramilitary group’s ceasefire amid fears of escalating sectarian violence.

The funeral takes place today of the Antrim teenager, Gavin Brett, who was murdered by loyalists in Glengormley on Sunday night.

The Irish and British Governments were poised today to release a "take-it-or-leave-it" package of proposals to prevent the collapse of the Good Friday Agreement.

Relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombing today bitterly attacked Northern Ireland politicians for ‘‘taking the money’’ on a promise of peace but failing to deliver.

Loyalists last night threw two bombs at a community theatre staging a children's play as part of a community festival in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

The RUC chief constable, Ronnie Flanagan, has said he believes the Ulster Defence Association is responsible for an orchestrated campaign of pipe-bomb attacks on Catholic homes across the North.

Renegade loyalists tonight vowed to step up their sectarian murder campaign after gunning down a Protestant teenager on the outskirts of north Belfast.

The Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, has agreed to meet the loyalist UDA to try to end the violence in Belfast.

The Red Hand Defenders have claimed responsibility for the murder of a Protestant teenager in Glengormley, Co Antrim last night.