The church founded by the Reverend Ian Paisley is tonight expected to elect a new leader to replace the 81-year-old minister.

A senior Democratic Unionist tonight rejected claims by Gerry Adams that his party did nothing to help deliver peaceful Twelfth of July Orange Order marches.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness says that unless politicians agree to work together in the North there will be more sectarian murders like that of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena.

Loyalists attacked mourners on their way to the funeral of murdered Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen, it was claimed tonight.

A 15-year-old youth has been charged with the murder of Michael McIlveen.

A Protestant church leader met murdered Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen’s family today – and urged other youths not to risk their lives through pointless sectarian bravado.

THE leaders of three Protestant marching organisations in the North issued a dramatic appeal for calm yesterday in the wake of Catholic teenager Michael McIlveen’s murder.

More victims of the sectarian hatred that drove a gang to beat a Catholic schoolboy to death are going undetected, Northern Ireland‘s Chief Constable warned tonight.

The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today described the murder of a Catholic schoolboy in Northern Ireland as a "shocking reminder of the evils of sectarianism".

Five people were today being questioned about the brutal murder of a schoolboy savagely beaten in a sectarian attack in the North.

A substantial amount of illegal and counterfeit veterinary drugs destined for use in the Republic were seized north of the border in a raid today.