Bullets were left at cemeteries in a new threat campaign against Sinn Féin representatives in the North, the party claimed today.

Police have uncovered a bomb-making factory used by dissident republicans in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

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.

Mr Ivan Barr, the Sinn Fein Chairman of Strabane District Council, said he was horrified by the killing of a protestant man as he left the home of his Catholic girlfriend las night.

A senior member of Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party today could face disciplinary action after shaking hands with a Sinn Fein council chairman.