Two former British soldiers are to be prosecuted for allegedly murdering an Official IRA man in the North.

Clerical sex abuse survivor and papal representative Marie Collins said she was glad there would be an inquiry over the failure by the gardaí to act on information it had in 1973, about paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

Victims of paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth are to take legal action against the gardaí. The move follows revelations that officers in Dublin knew about his sex abuse in the early 1970s.

One of Northern Ireland’s most senior British Army officers is to be sued over the death of a Catholic man in the North more than 40 years ago.

A former policeman who is one of three men sought in connection with an alleged racist incident involving Chelsea football fans on a Paris Metro train has apologised for his involvement.

Northern Ireland’s highest ranking police officer has been summoned to court to explain why a crucial report on the murder of a GAA official almost 18 years ago has been withheld from an inquest.

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.

Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum is set to be transferred from Peru to a jail in Northern Ireland.

Tyrone woman, Michaella McCollum, who was jailed for drug smuggling in Peru last year is to be transferred to a prison in the North.

Relatives of 33 people killed in loyalist bombings in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings 40 years ago are suing the British Government over alleged collusion.

The British Government is facing mass legal action over alleged collusion with loyalists in murders in the North during the 1970s.

Sean Quinn’s solicitor Kevin Winters has said the Quinn family will make a formal request to the Prison Service for compassionate release so his client can attend his granddaughter’s christening.

A former Sinn Féin councillor denies shooting a policeman dead, a court heard today.

A former Sinn Fein councillor appeared in court today charged with murdering a Northern Ireland policeman.

A convicted Basque terrorist wanted by the Spanish authorities went to a Belfast court today to surrender himself for extradition.

A convicted Basque terrorist who fled to the North from Spain will appear in court today to face extradition proceedings.

A convicted Basque terrorist believed to have fled to the North from Spain is being hunted by police.

A convicted Basque terrorist believed to have fled to the North from Spain is being hunted by police.

Former Sinn Féin publicity director Danny Morrison today demanded the courts reveal why a conviction linking him to an IRA kidnap plot was dramatically overturned.

Prisoners jailed on the strength of a DNA testing technique that is now under review could turn to the appeal courts in a bid to have their convictions quashed, an expert said today.

The solicitor for the man cleared of all charges in connection with the Omagh bomb says he is considering a malicious prosecution civil action against the prosecuting authorities after yesterday's court judgement.

Solicitors for the parents of Madeleine McCann have no plans to have talks about controversial DNA testing with legal representatives of a man accused of the Omagh bombing, a family spokesman said tonight.

The funeral of a man involved in the murder of a top loyalist in the North was delayed today after relatives asked for a second post mortem examination to be carried out.

A former police chef is to be extradited from the United States to face charges linked to the theft of Special Branch files in Belfast.

The British government was today challenged to explain a three and a half year delay in seeking the extradition of a key suspect in a Northern Ireland spy scandal.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain faced demands tonight from the Rev Ian Paisley for a meeting over the dropping of charges against three men accused of operating a republican spy ring at Stormont.

THE RUC investigation into the 1997 murder of 61-year-old Derryman Sean Brown was seriously deficient, "incomplete and inadequate", Northern Ireland's police ombudsman said yesterday.

The family of a top Northern Ireland civil servant facing underage sex charges in the US have promised to stand by him.

The floodgates could be opened on a series of appeals by people convicted of terrorist offences in Northern Ireland more than 20 years ago following a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, it has been claimed.