MPs sitting in both the British House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly should not receive two salaries, the UK government said today.

The use of non-jury trials in the North will be reviewed next year, the British government said today.

St Gall’s 1-15 Corofin 1-11 (aet)

A huge bomb planted close to the border was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said tonight.

A threatened strike by prison officers in the North has been averted after talks with the government, it was confirmed today.

More than 5,000 young people from across the North will take part in a summer scheme tackling anti-social behaviour, Paul Goggins said today.

Foreign women are being imprisoned in homes across the North and forced to work as sex slaves, the police warned today.

A criminal justice record keeping scheme in the North has gone £15m (€16.8m) over budget, it was revealed today.

Electronic tagging of offenders will be introduced in the North within weeks, it was announced today.

The next local government elections in the North are being delayed a year until 2011, it was confirmed tonight.

Sting operations to target off-licenses selling alcohol to underage drinkers are being authorised in the North, it was announced today.

Members of the North's Policing board will meet Security Minister Paul Goggins today to demand government fills a multi-million pound hole in the policing budget.

Thefts from vehicles in the North have shot up by over 5% in the past year and Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins today launched a campaign to try to reverse the trend.

A new multi-agency public protection team has been set up in the North to manage the most dangerous sexual and violent offenders after they have been released from prison, it was announced today.

The British government should hand over files on one of the biggest massacres of the North's conflict to resolve security force collusion allegations, it was claimed today.

Not enough is being done to help the victims and survivors of sexual violence and abuse in Northern Ireland, it was admitted today as ministers launched a new five-year victim-focused strategy.

Politicians in the North hit out at the UK government tonight after it decided to reduce the sexual age of consent in the province against the wishes of the Stormont Assembly.

The Irish and British governments today vowed to strengthen cross-border security co-operation ahead of the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont.

Coman Goggins, who captained Dublin to the 2002 Leinster SFC title, has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

Record amounts of criminal assets have been seized during the first six months of this year, the Northern Ireland Office said tonight.

Police in the North are to become the first force to receive new powers to seize documents and files as part of a crackdown on serious crime.

The countdown to the introduction of a smoking ban in the North was signalled today with a campaign to prepare the public and businesses for the changes.

The countdown to the introduction of a smoking ban in the North was signalled today with a campaign to prepare the public and businesses for the changes.

Cancer patients in Co Donegal are to have access to radiotherapy services in the North from next month, it was confirmed today.

Petrol retailers in the North hit out at the British government today for rejecting the demands of MPs to cut fuel tax in a bid to wipe out a £300m (€447.5m) smuggling racket.

Cannabis with a street value of worth more than £10m (€14.8m) was seized from a warehouse in the North today.

The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service has been provided with new vehicles and equipment which, in the aftermath of 9/11 and the London bombings, will enable them to deal with a major terrorist attack.

Proof was provided today that a workplace smoking ban will improve people’s health when it comes into force next year.

THE Irish stunt pilot involved in a fatal mid-air collision during an airshow in Malta last weekend is unlikely to face any charges over the accident.

The British government is acting to try to reduce a terrible rise in the number of people committing suicide in Northern Ireland.

The British government plans to end paramilitary infiltration of the North's private security industry will see regulations widened to include bouncers and even wheel clampers, it emerged today.

One in five police officers in the North are now Catholic, it emerged today.

A senior Democratic Unionist tonight rejected claims by Gerry Adams that his party did nothing to help deliver peaceful Twelfth of July Orange Order marches.

Homosexual and lesbian couples in the North will be able to adopt children under proposals announced by the British government today.

DUBLIN 3-17 LAOIS 0-12

Northern Ireland Minister Paul Goggins warned today of a growing problem of people-trafficking there.

DEFENDING champions UCC Demons will face Roma St. Vincent’s in the first semi-final of the NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague at The Mardyke Arena next Saturday afternoon while Merry Monk Ballina will contest the other place in the final with Limerick Lions.

Dublin 0-13 Wexford 1-8

Dublin 1-14 Tyrone 1-14

NOT unexpectedly, the Cork senior hurling selectors have stuck with the same 15 which defeated Waterford in the quarter-final for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Clare in Croke Park.

Dublin 0-14 Laois 0-13

IT’S that time of year again in Dublin where the natives rummage around the closet for the Arnott’s jerseys and blue and navy car accessories assault the eyes on every street. Even the Hill is back in commission this year.

Britain's Home Office is to change the rules on electronic tagging of prisoners after confirmation Maxine Carr has applied for early release under the scheme.

The independent inquiry into the death of Harold Shipman will begin tomorrow morning, the British Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has said.