Police investigating the killing of a woman shot in a laundrette in a seaside town have arrested a man in his 40s.

A sectarian attack in the North today sparked calls for increased jail sentences for petrol bombers.

Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell was elevated to legendary status at his hometown golf club today as fans and friends celebrated his dramatic match-winning performance.

The decision to release loyalist killer Torrens Knight from prison is an affront to democracy which has sent shockwaves through society, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman said today.

The seaside town of Portrush in the North is preparing today to throw the mother of all parties for US Open champion Graeme McDowell.

The skeleton remains of a baby have been found in a building undergoing renovation, it emerged tonight.

Notorious loyalist killer Torrens Knight was tonight arrested in the North and his release from prison suspended, Northern Ireland Prison Service said.

An SDLP assembly member has expressed concern that the UDA appears to be splitting into factions and could pose a renewed danger in some parts of the North.

A contentious loyal order parade past the scene of a sectarian murder in the North has been rerouted, it was revealed today.

The SDLP today announced a wide-ranging reshuffle of its Assembly team.

The murder of a Catholic community worker beaten to death by a Protestant mob in the North was primitive, premeditated evil, a priest told mourners at his funeral today.

NINE people have been arrested after a Catholic man was kicked to death by a sectarian mob in the North.

A man who died after an assault in the North was killed by a loyalist lynch mob, an Assembly member claimed today.

Four people were released on bail by police investigating the suspicious death of a teenage boy who was struck by a train.

Police in the North investigating the suspicious death of a teenage boy who was struck by a train arrested three people today.

It is thought that the teenage boy who was killed by a train last night may have ran across the track as he fled from a gang of youths.

The North’s First Minister was today accused of misleading the Stormont assembly – a claim, if upheld, that could force his resignation.

An SDLP assembly member has called for a new vision for the North for the new year.

People struggling to heat their homes were today urged to deluge Sinn Féin offices with copies of their energy bills in protest at the Stormont stalemate.

A Protestant clergyman forced out of a Co Derry town in the 1980s for extending the hand of friendship to a Catholic priest today said he was saddened unionist politicians have rejected a bid to put the controversy to rest.

The DUP's Ian Paisley Jnr has lodged an official complaint against the SDLP's John Dallat over the investigation that led to his resignation earlier this year.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was under fire from the SDLP today for saying an amnesty for illegal Irish immigrants living in the US was a non-starter.

Thirteen people have been left homeless in an overnight fire which gutted three houses.

A nurse will end up dead unless attacks on medical staff in the North are stopped, it was claimed today.

A Sinn Féin minister in the Stormont Executive was tonight facing a probe into whether he breached his ministerial code by consulting with the IRA over the murder of a Northern Ireland man.

The British Government is expected to announce plans to spend more than £200m (€280m) on building a new jail in the North.

The North suffered a major economic blow today when it was confirmed one of its "blue ribbon" technology companies was closing a plant with the loss of nearly 1,000 jobs.

Investigators who cleared the RUC of having any advance knowledge of a loyalist paramilitary pub massacre were hampered by missing paperwork, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman who triggered the probe claimed today.

An SDLP assembly member is demanding an explanation following revelations that some tourists seeking bus tickets to Derry were told that no such place existed.

A Sinn Féin councillor in the North has received death threats.

The police have informed an SDLP Assembly member that his life is at risk from loyalists in Co Derry.

Politicians in the North are criticising calls for Aer Lingus to reconsider the decision to transfer its strategically important Heathrow route from Shannon to Belfast.

A Coleraine father has spoken out against loyalists who put his dead son's name on top of a bonfire in the town.

Under-representation of women in the Northern Ireland Assembly will be on the agenda during today’s debate.

Auditors delivered a damning verdict on Translink today over a major railway line refurbishment in the North which careered nearly £20m (€29.5m) over budget.

Family, friends and neighbours of four young men killed in a road crash in Monaghan have been plunged into a deep state of shock, it was claimed today.

A 16-year-old girl has been shot with a pellet gun in a Northern Ireland seaside resort – the second teenager to be shot in the town on the same day – it was revealed today.

UP to 5,000 college students from the Republic are nervously awaiting a decision tomorrow which will determine whether they will be able to continue their education in the North.

Men and women are being paid £2,000 (€2,900) a time to go through with sham marriages to foreign nationals in the North, it was revealed today.

Loyalist terrorist godfathers in the North are trying to hold the British treasury to ransom with demands for a financial package, it was claimed today.

Police and prison officers’ sick leave in the North cost almost £47m (€67.8m) in the last two years, it was revealed today.

The British government faced demands today to call in the police to probe a financial scandal in the North involving public funds and claims of insider trading.

LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight was a double agent shielded by the Special Branch before he murdered eight people in the Greysteel massacre, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat claimed yesterday.

THE Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) yesterday reiterated its long-running call for improved vetting procedures for people working with children.