The widow of a murdered PSNI officer said she felt pity for his killers as she watched them being convicted and jailed for life.

THE head of the Catholic Church in Ireland was applauded by mourners at the funeral of murdered PSNI officer Ronan Kerr when he called for an immediate end to the futility and evil of violence.

THE crimson red of the Gaelic football shirts; the bottle green of the police uniform.

Dissident republicans who murdered a young Catholic police officer are waging a useless war against peace, Martin McGuinness said today.

Martin McGuinness accused the Ulster Unionists today of opposing a deal to devolve policing powers to Northern Ireland for cynical party political reasons, as a crunch debate on the transfer began at Stormont.

The widow of the Catholic policeman murdered by dissident republican gunmen has made an emotional plea for his death to be the last in the North's conflict.