A 17-YEAR-OLD girl, who is in HSE care, went missing 33 times, and for a week on one occasion, since the start of August.

A 15-year-old girl was remanded in custody today after she caused mayhem at a HSE high support children's care unit and attacked staff when told she could not be alone in a room with a boy.

Murdered teenager Daniel McAnaspie died in “the most horrific circumstances,” his solicitor told the Dublin Children's Court today.

Three men convicted of trying to kill police officers with a mortar bomb in Co Armagh two years ago have been sent to jail for 15 years in the North.

A top civil servant who lifted the lid on alleged mismanagement at a cross-border agency has won his latest High Court battle.

A 13-year-old schoolboy made his first ever court appearance yesterday to face drug dealing allegations after his arrest for possessing nearly €1,000 worth of crack-cocaine, heroin and cannabis resin.

An electrician accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bomb atrocity tried to escape arrest by hiding in bushes, a court heard today.

NORTHERN Secretary Paul Murphy deliberately misled parliament when delaying a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, Belfast High Court heard yesterday.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy deliberately misled the British parliament when delaying a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, Belfast High Court heard today.

THE House of Lords will next week hear allegations of how the British security forces had a shoot-to-kill policy in the North.

CHANGED work practices, including the cutting out of overtime for bin men and non-replacement of staff who go sick, could lead to problems for a compromise deal which has been agreed by councillors to keep Tralee Town Council in business.

A former British paratrooper today admitted shooting a youth in the back as he was running away on Bloody Sunday.

A former British paratrooper tonight faced allegations of murdering up to four people on Bloody Sunday.

A former paratrooper admitted today that he killed a fourth person on Bloody Sunday.

A former paratrooper who admitted killing three people on Bloody Sunday told the Saville Inquiry today he was only doing his job.

A former British army paratrooper did not see any threat that would have justified the shooting dead of civilians on Bloody Sunday, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

A former soldier who refused to give evidence about Bloody Sunday is to be reported to the British High Court for contempt of the inquiry, it emerged today.

A soldier was accused of lying today about being an eye witness as part of an attempt to cover up the Bloody Sunday shootings.

British paratroopers who killed 13 unarmed civil rights marchers on Bloody Sunday probably also beat up and left for dead two innocent Catholic men a couple of days later, the Saville Inquiry was told today.

Two retired police officers were today granted permission to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday Tribunal from behind screens to protect their identity.

The credibility of a police witness to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was called into question today after it was claimed information was withheld which could have affected his successful application for screening in the witness box.

The sister of a teenager shot dead by British troops on Bloody Sunday is mounting a legal bid to have Northern Ireland’s top judge excluded from an Appeal Court hearing challenging a ruling to have police witnesses screened at the Saville Tribunal.

A High Court judge in Belfast is today due to decide if lawyers acting for relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday could challenge a ruling by the Saville Inquiry allowing police to give evidence behind screens.