Police in the North are investigating if the murder of senior dissident republican on Saturday is linked to the killing of Dublin criminal Robbie Lawlor.

The chief suspect in the murder and dismemberment of 17-year-old Keane Mulready Woods was gunned down in Belfast on Saturday.

The “senseless murder” of a man in Belfast has been condemned.

HIV may not be the killer it once was, but the disease is on the rise again and many sufferers feel there is a huge stigma around it, writes Rita de Brún.