Eight people investigated about the murder of a journalist in the North over a decade ago will not be prosecuted because of concerns about the evidence of a key witness, the DPP for Northern Ireland said yesterday.

SOME visits everybody remembers. John F Kennedy in 1963, Pope John Paul II in 1979. However, sandwiched in between those was the visit few remember, that of the 37th President of the United States of American, Richard Milhous Nixon.

One of the North’s top investigative journalists was beaten up in the centre of Belfast today.

President McAleese and the Queen of England have met in the North but there was still no sign of the long-anticipated Royal visit to Dublin.

Another man has been arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan, police said today.

Two men appeared in court today charged with the murder of an investigative journalist in the North.

Four men are to appear in court today charged in connection with the 2001 murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan.

Four men and a woman were being questioned in connection with the murder of journalist Martin O’Hagan seven years ago.

Five men were questioned tonight about the murder seven years ago of Northern Ireland journalist Martin O’Hagan.

THE number of people who died at work last year rose by 33%.

The National Union of Journalists says it has lost confidence in the PSNI inquiry into the murder of Sunday World report Martin O'Hagan.

THE analogy drawn between Nazism and unionism by Fr Alec Reid is inaccurate only on the basis of scale.

The British government was tonight under pressure to declare obsolete the ceasefire of loyalist paramilitaries accused of issuing new death threats against a murder victim’s father.

Several thousand union members have been taking part in the annual parade through Belfast to mark the beginning of May.

The National Union of Journalists in the North is seeking a meeting with the police chief constable to discuss threats to reporters from loyalist paramilitaries.

The American Government has recommended outlawing Loyalist and Republican paramilitary groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, it emerged today.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid paid tribute to murdered journalist Martin O’Hagan as he arrived in Dublin today for talks on the Ulster peace process with Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today put pressure on Northern Ireland Secretary Dr John Reid to declare the IRA ceasefire over next time the organisation carries out a murder.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid tonight declared an end to the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association’s ceasefire.

The RUC has been given the names of the Loyalist paramilitaries who are suspected of murdering the Belfast based journalist, Martin O’Hagan.

RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan was today challenged to issue a public verdict on the state of paramilitary ceasefires.

More than 1,000 people turned out for the funeral of murdered journalist Martin O’Hagan in Lurgan, Co Armagh this afternoon.

The funeral of a Northern Ireland journalist gunned down in front of his wife by loyalist paramilitaries will take place today.

The distraught wife of Northern Ireland journalist Martin O’Hagan, shot dead as he walked home from his local pub, tonight recalled the last minutes of his life.

Murdered journalist Martin O’Hagan was threatened by a well-known Loyalist less than a week before his death, it has been disclosed.

Foreign Minister Brian Cowen said he had been shocked to hear of the 'appalling murder' of journalist Martin O’Hagan.

Opportunists have exploited the terror attacks on the United States to attack Irish republicanism, Sinn Fein national chairman Mitchel McLaughlin claimed today.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has condemned the murder of Sunday World journalist Martin O’Hagan as "senseless and brutal".

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble today condemned as ‘‘cowardly’’ the murder of well-known Northern Ireland journalist Martin O’Hagan near his home in Lurgan Co Armagh.

A Northern Ireland journalist was shot dead by loyalists close to his home in Lurgan, Co Armagh last night.