Two men have been arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a policeman shot dead during a bank robbery almost 40 years ago.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested over the murder of a police inspector almost 40 years ago in the North.

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

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

TWO Irish authors are on the shortlist for the biggest books prize in the world, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, it was announced yesterday.

Two Irish authors have been shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin €100,000 Literary Award.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opens tomorrow night.

Home-grown Irish talent will take centre stage at this year’s annual Dublin Writers Festival, it emerged tonight.

The 2004 Hennessy New Irish Writer Award, in association with The Sunday Tribune and Four Seasons Hotel Dublin, was presented this evening to Newbridge teacher Terry Donnelly for his First Fiction short story 'Singing Dumb'.

AN Irish, Northern Irish and Clonakilty-based writer are among 22 authors long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.

Three new short films have been commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast as part of their seven-year-old Northern Lights project, which has so far yielded 19 such highly-regarded mini-movies.