Police should reveal which paramilitary group they suspect of murdering a Co Armagh father-of-two, irrespective of the potential political fallout, a coroner’s court has been told.

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

A senior doctor has apologised over a heated conversation he had with the husband of a new mother as her condition deteriorated following an emergency Caesarean section.

A man was confrontational and angry when he sought answers over why his seriously ill wife was not in intensive care six days before she died, a senior doctor told the inquest into her death.

A widower whose wife died days after giving birth has told an inquest into her death he has lost the light of his life.

A widower whose wife died days after giving birth has told an inquest into her death he has lost the light of his life.

An inquest into a sectarian IRA attack almost 40 years ago will take place next summer.

Relatives of a Protestant workman in the North gunned down in an IRA attack almost 40 years ago have accused the authorities of attempting to bury the truth.

A coroner has bowed to pressure and offered to almost treble the number of witnesses for an inquest into the death of a woman who died days after giving birth.

Lawyers for Michael Kivlehan told the coroner’s court that "if there’s an attempt to truncate the inquest or reduce it to a level that does not meet these requirements, the Kivlehans will be unhappy and take their unhappiness elsewhere".

The widower of an Indian woman who died four days after giving birth to her son has alleged a cover-up over plans for a long-awaited inquest into her death.

Dealing with the past is costing Northern Ireland’s criminal justice system more than £30 million a year and risks denting public confidence in present-day services, an inspection has revealed.

The deaths of a father and his two sons – one of them a professional rugby star - in a slurry tank accident in Northern Ireland must serve as a warning to the whole farming community, a coroner has urged.

A woman whose father and two brothers, one of them a rising rugby star, died in a slurry pit accident has said love for her family drove her to twice enter the fume-filled tank in a bid to rescue them.

The owner of a trawler which sank off the North Coast with the loss of his father and uncle has hit out at the Dublin-based authorities over what he claimed was their failure to carry out a proper inquiry into the tragedy.

An inquest into the death of a man whose body was found in a disused hotel on the north coast was postponed today after his family solicitor failed to turn up.

An inquest into the death of a schoolgirl who was last seen with a convicted child killer may not start for two years, a court has heard.

A convicted child killer has launched a legal bid to halt an inquest into the death of a schoolgirl he was cleared of murdering.

A dentist who murdered his wife and ex lover’s husband then covered it up as suicide has apologised for killing two innocent and honourable people as verdicts delivered at the original inquest were overturned.

SAFETY issues surrounding the death of a motorcyclist in a high speed road race crash raise questions as to whether the sport should be banned, Northern Ireland’s senior coroner said yesterday.

A new inquest into the deaths of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan will set the record straight after their partners were jailed for their murders, a coroner’s court hearing in the North was told today.

A TEENAGER who was trapped in front of an oncoming train pleaded desperately for help during a phone call with his father moments before he died.

NORTHERN Ireland’s Attorney General has ordered a fresh inquest into the deaths of two people murdered by dentist Colin Howell and his lover.

The North's Attorney General has ordered a fresh inquest into the deaths of two people murdered by dentist Colin Howell and his lover.

Twenty-one police witnesses to alleged security force shoot-to-kill incidents in the North are dead, a coroner's court heard today.

A man who was killed and secretly buried by republicans in the North nearly 40 years ago was shot four times in the back of the head, an inquest has heard.

An inquest in the North has heard a computer simulation could help gain fresh clues about so-called security force shoot-to-kill deaths.

A Coroner's Court in the North has ruled a prisoner who died days after being locked up should have been sent to hospital.

Fresh searches for a schoolgirl who went missing in the North in 1994 are to begin in the New Year, an inquest heard today.

Ambulance staff were assaulted while trying to save a dying toddler run over by a car, an inquest in the North heard today.

A depressive father hugged his young son and told him how he wanted him to grow up the day before he lay down in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard today.

Police failed to locate the body of a drunk man who died in a fire which swept through a disused school in north Belfast, an inquest heard today.

A light aircraft spluttered and stalled seconds before it nosedived to the ground, killing three people in the North, an inquest heard today.

A man who hanged himself from a bridge in Co Down was a paranoid schizophrenic, an inquest heard today.

A 15-year-old boy who had been drinking heavily went missing in a strange area and drowned, an inquest heard today.

Police in the North are to comply with a court order to hand over top secret reports on an alleged officer shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles, a senior commander revealed today.

A Belfast coroner today gave the North's Chief Constable seven weeks to hand over top secret reports on an alleged police shoot-to-kill policy during the Troubles.

Drivers in the North could face zero tolerance on drink-driving with just one pint of beer putting them over the limit, it emerged tonight.

The inquest into the disputed killing of an IRA man by police has again been delayed, it was confirmed today.

A Catholic man stabbed 12 years ago in the North was the victim of a sectarian killing, an inquest heard today.

THE inquest into the tragic deaths of a mother under psychiatric treatment who smothered her little daughter before committing suicide is to be held in September, it was announced yesterday.

The decision to withhold a police report on security force collusion in paramilitary murders could be challenged in court, it was revealed today.

MI5 will have a key role in the decision whether or not to grant anonymity to 14 Northern Ireland police officers implicated in a shoot-to-kill probe.

Top secret reports into allegations the security forces operated a shoot-to-kill policy in the North more than two decades ago are finally to be opened to the North's chief coroner, it was revealed today.