The gang behind a £20m-plus (€29m) robbery on the Northern Bank’s Belfast headquarters planned it like a military operation.

The Irish Government was responsible for a 15-month delay in handing over DNA samples on Omagh bomb suspects to investigating detectives in the North, it was claimed tonight.

The father of a nine-year-old girl killed in the Claudy bombing today called on former Prime Minister Edward Heath and his Defence Secretary Lord Carrington to say what they knew about the atrocity.

The British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in an astonishing cover-up to shield a priest suspected of heading-up the IRA team responsible for one of Northern Ireland’s worst ever bomb atrocities, police claimed today.

The Northern Ireland Policing Board was meeting today to shortlist candidates for the North's second most senior post in law enforcement.

POLICE investigating the murder of workman David Caldwell at a Territorial Army camp in Derry made two more arrests in the area yesterday.

Police were today continuing to question two men and a woman over a bomb attack on a Derry British territorial army base which killed a construction worker.

TWO men and a woman were last night being questioned by police after a construction worker was murdered in a bomb attack on a Derry Territorial Army base.

The new head of the Omagh bomb investigation is to face tough questions from victims’ relatives when he meets them for the first time next week.