A music student suffered a devastating brain injury after her car was rear-ended on the way to a Christmas carol service five years ago, the High Court heard yesterday.

Lawyers representing injured victims and families of those killed in the Glasgow helicopter crash have started legal action against the aircraft’s operator.

A growing number of women in their 50s and 60s are being forced to provide financial and other supports to their parents, their children and grandchildren.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today dismissed three men's appeals against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

The body of a teenager has been found at a water-filled disused quarry in the North today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of three Northern Ireland men appealing against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

Closing speeches have been heard in the Special Criminal Court trial of three Northern Ireland men charged with membership of the IRA.

A Garda Chief Superintendant has told the Special Criminal Court that he will not disclose the name of an informant who provided intelligence implicating three Northern Ireland men in IRA activities for fear they will end up “in a shallow grave”.

Door staff at a Letterkenny nightclub received no approach for work from any of three men from the North accused of membership of the IRA in the hours before their arrest, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Garda ballistics expert has told the Special Criminal Court that an air pistol found in a car in which three Northern Ireland men charged with membership of the IRA were travelling when arrested is not a “BB” gun.

The trial of three men from the North men charged with membership of the IRA has heard that none of the accused were under surveillance before their arrest.

Three men arrested charged with IRA membership have been granted leave to apply for bail at the Special Criminal Court.

Three men arrested as part of a garda investigation into dissident republican activity in Co Donegal were charged with IRA membership at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of INLA membership who were arrested during a garda investigation into a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

A Strabane man accused of INLA membership was shot in the back by the INLA and is confined to a wheelchair as a result, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin heard today.

A Tyrone man accused of INLA membership told gardaí that he did not know what two men who have pleaded guilty to INLA membership were doing in his hotel room the night before the alleged offence, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A Tyrone man accused of INLA membership told gardaí during interviews that he works for the cross-border charity Teach na Fáilte, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

Fingerprints of two men accused of INLA membership were found in a B&B room in Cork, the Special Criminal Court has heard today.

A Dublin man has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to INLA membership in February last year.

One of four men accused of INLA membership gave a false name to gardaí, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The trial at the Special Criminal Court of four men accused of INLA membership has heard that three knives, duct-tape and cable ties were found in the coal-shed of a house that two of the accused men had entered.

Five men arrested in Cork in February and charged with INLA membership were remanded on bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

A disgruntled construction worker was sacked today after scaling a 52-metre crane in a dangerous lone protest over the pension rights of builders.

Three men charged with INLA membership were granted bail at the Special Criminal Court today.

The Special Criminal Court has remanded five men in custody today after they were charged with being members of the INLA.

A viable bomb was left outside the home of an independent member of a local policing body in the North, police said today.

The British government is acting to try to reduce a terrible rise in the number of people committing suicide in Northern Ireland.

Arsonists set fire to a car owned by a Northern Ireland policing representative today.