A flawless cross-country performance on Saturday has the Irish eventing team holding the silver-medal position going into today's show jumping decider at the world championships in Tryon, North Carolina.

The Good Friday Agreement brought the framework for peace, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. Political Correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith looks back on the key moments of the first 20 years of the peace process.

Lawyers acting for the man convicted of murdering Lin and Megan Russell in England in 1996 say they have new evidence of his innocence, including a "very detailed confession" to the killings from serial killer Levi Bellfield.

It is no secret that the bulk of Ivanka Trump’s merchandise comes from China. But just which Chinese companies manufacture and export her handbags, shoes and clothes is more secret than ever, an Associated Press investigation has found. By Erika Kinetz 

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey did not want the bodies of three IRA members shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar to be taken home through Dublin, archived British papers disclosed.

A man on a business trip meets an impossible woman called Lisa.

Charlie Kaufman is back with a film called Anomalisa, and this stop motion marvel is setting itself up to be the best of the year

Construction workers are being encouraged to ask their colleagues “are you OK?” as new figures show “startlingly” high levels of suicides among men working in and around the industry.

The recent clamour among apparent followers of sport in Ireland for a unified football team is fanciful, notional and potentially downright dangerous.

A priest who helped broker the IRA’s ceasefire in 1994 has died at the age of 82 in hospital in Dublin.

A loyalist who killed three men during a gun and grenade attack at an IRA funeral in West Belfast must serve out the remainder of of his minimum 30-year jail sentence, it was disclosed.

An envelope containing a key document which helped trigger the peace process in the North was smeared with the blood of two soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast, a new TV documentary reveals tonight.

SATURDAY

A brother of an IRA woman shot dead by British Special Forces in Gibraltar appeared in court today charged with a bomb attack in the North.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone was jailed for 16 years today for trying to kill senior Sinn Féin leaders in a one-man raid on the Northern Ireland Assembly.

A notorious loyalist killer who tried to kill senior Sinn Féin members in a one-man attack on the Northern Ireland Assembly will today find if he is to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

MICHAEL Stone was born on April 2, 1955, in Birmingham His mother left his father when he was five months old and he went to live with his father’s sister in Ballyhalbert, Co Down.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone was found guilty at Belfast Crown Court today of attempting to murder Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in an armed attack on the North's parliament.

A verdict in the trial of a notorious loyalist killer accused of attempting to murder Sinn Féin leaders at the North's parliament will be delivered today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone has claimed at a Belfast court that his incursion at Stormont two years ago saved the peace process.

Loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone came within inches of assassinating former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, a court heard today.

An expert in explosives will be cross-examined later today on whether the bombs allegedly carried into Stormont by loyalist killer Michael Stone could have killed and seriously injured.

Unedited video footage of loyalist killer Michael Stone launching his alleged murder bid against senior Sinn Féin members inside the Northern Ireland Assembly was played at his trial in Belfast today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone planned to slit the throats of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness inside the Northern Assembly Chamber when he stormed it in November 2006, a court was told today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone is due to go on trial today charged with attempting to murder Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

“TODAY is only the beginning,” an emotional Tony Blair declared after the forging of the Good Friday Agreement.

Senior civil servants were asked to help the Northern Ireland Office give as positive a response as possible to issues raised by the Rev Ian Paisley’s son during devolution negotiations before a key political deadline, it emerged today.

A security alert at the Northern Ireland Assembly has been declared a hoax, the PSNI said tonight.

THE secretary general of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), Michael Stone, last night said he is going to launch an investigation into how it emerged a horse ridden by Jessica Kürten, Castle Forbes Maike, tested positive for a banned substance.

THE Fell family are aiming to stage the Ballindenisk Eventing World Cup qualifier again next year, despite the sport’s national governing body yesterday backing an application by Tattersall’s, Co Meath.

THE Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) has yet to review the reports on the recent Ballindenisk Eventing World Cup qualifier, which proved controversial after many riders withdrew over the hard ground.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone was again remanded in custody today charged with the attempted murder of Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness.

THE Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) yesterday rejected it had watered down its proposals on measuring ponies, after it emerged animals standing 151cms will be tolerated in 148cms international competitions.

LOYALIST killer Michael Stone was remanded in custody yesterday while police compile further evidence about an attempted bomb attack on Stormont buildings.

Convicted loyalist killer Michael Stone is due to appear in court in the North later this morning.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain was tonight accused of trying to dictate how the North's Assembly conducts its business.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists will hold a private strategy meeting today in a bid to allay concerns about the party’s involvement in efforts to revive power-sharing at Stormont.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone planned to kill Sinn Féin leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness in the debating chamber at Stormont, it was revealed today.

Loyalist killer Michael Stone’s former paramilitary bosses must bear some of the blame for his bomb attack on Stormont, it was claimed today.