The threat to political donors from terrorism in the North should be taken seriously, the leader of the DUP said.

Two loyalist supergrasses were interviewed 330 times by police before their evidence was used in a trial, the North's justice minister said today.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

Killers who shot dead a man in Donegal are imposing the law of the jungle, a priest who knew the victim has said.

A man in his 20s was shot dead at his home in Co Donegal.

THE man who had his conviction for the murder of Jill Dando quashed after prosecution evidence was called into question is to make a new claim for a British government payout in the wake of a compensation ruling by leading judges, his lawyer said.

UNIONIST representatives will join other guest speakers, including hurling legend Donal Óg Cusack and musician Peadar O Riada, at a special forum to discuss building a better Ireland.

Prison officers in the North were forced to wear body armour to protect against the dissident republican threat, it was revealed today.

National security concerns over the Bloody Sunday report are bogus and disingenuous, it was claimed tonight.

A third of non-users said nothing would persuade them to step onto buses or trains, a survey revealed today.

IF he had called off his hunger strike, Bobby Sands would be 54 and still, very possibly, the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

Devolution in the North will perish if urgent concerns about fuel and food poverty are not addressed, Democratic Unionists warned today.

Critics of a new film about the republican hunger strikes in the North should watch it before they attack it, one of the strikers said today.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams led tributes to Brendan ‘the Dark’ Hughes, once one of Belfast’s most feared IRA gunmen, who died over the weekend.

The North's most senior policeman Hugh Orde will brief an Assembly committee today on the proposed transfer of policing and justice powers.

The body of a man from the North who was a victim of the Thailand air crash will be returned to his family home tonight.

Sinn Féin could contaminate policing and justice if the party gets control over it in a devolved government, a hardline Democratic Unionist said tonight.

The swift resumption of power sharing at Stormont is the only way to reverse water reforms in the North, it was claimed today.

The British government was told to hang its head in shame tonight after Irish republicans held a commemoration at the former Maze Prison to 10 IRA and INLA prisoners who died on hunger strike.

Republicans were tonight preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands with a number of events throughout Ireland.

A body representing solicitors in the North was tonight bewildered by claims from Ian Paisley that many lawyers in the North are involved in money laundering for the IRA.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member is to have his conviction for the murder of a policeman reviewed by the Court of Appeal, it emerged today.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness ended a two-and-a-half-day visit to South Africa by paying tribute to the role of the African National Congress government in encouraging parties in Northern Ireland.

The criminal records of people who served jail sentences in Northern Ireland for terrorist offences should be cleared, Sinn Féin delegates demanded at their annual conference in Dublin today.

A day before Northern Ireland’s Assembly Election, Sinn Féin candidates were getting twitchy.

PRISONERS must be denied control of their own wings in Northern Ireland jails, a cross community party insisted yesterday.

A TOP security prison in Northern Ireland will be plunged into violent chaos unless republican and loyalist inmates are kept apart, it was claimed last night.

Republicans were today set to intensify demands for paramilitary prisoners to be segregated at a top-security Northern Ireland jail.

A Sinn Fein election candidate in Derry alleged today his house was broken into by British intelligence.

Two more members of the Provisional IRA are preparing to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it was claimed tonight.

A former republican hunger striker is expected to face new demands to name members of the IRA who were active in Derry at the time of Bloody Sunday, it emerged today.

A former leading IRA man has told the Bloody Sunday inquiry there are no circumstances in which he would give the names of IRA members to the tribunal.

The most senior former IRA man to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry in Derry will step into the witness box later this morning.

A former IRA hunger striker who may run as a Sinn Fein candidate in next year’s Northern Ireland Assembly election is to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Tribunal on Thursday, it emerged today.

Northern Ireland’s moderate nationalist SDLP tonight selected four candidates to contest the Foyle constituency in the assembly election – just hours after it emerged a former IRA hunger striker could stand as a Sinn Fein candidate in the constituency.

A former IRA hunger striker who was questioned in April about the theft of sensitive security documents from a top security police station could be a Sinn Fein candidate in the next Assembly election, it emerged today.

Elements within the security forces are trying to undermine the peace process by alleging that republicans were behind last month’s break-in at a top security Belfast police station, it was claimed today.

Three people arrested in connection with the raid on a high security Northern Ireland police station have been released without charge.