Disagreements over the blanking out of documents are adding to the delays in an inquest for a dissident republican murdered six years ago.

Lawyers for the families of those killed in the 1976 Kingsmill massacre have appealed for top secret intelligence material to be released to an inquest.

The British army shooting of a father of six after the van he was driving backfired outside a police station in the North was not necessary, reasonable or proportionate, a coroner has ruled.

A person who gave information leading to police shooting dead an unarmed IRA man in Northern Ireland almost 20 years ago was later murdered, an inquest preliminary heard today.

A savage beating in north Belfast which killed a radio DJ was sanctioned by senior members of the loyalist Ulster Defence Association, police told an inquest today.

TICKET prices for Ireland’s upcoming friendly with South Africa at Thomond Park next month have been slashed in a bid to sell out the famous Limerick stadium.

THE FAI last night defended the ticket bundling policy for the Republic of Ireland’s final World Cup qualifiers.

The North's Minister of Health is to be urged by a coroner to take action to ensure prescription drug addicts cannot get multiple scripts by registering with more than one GP.

A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.

A homeless man died from a drugs overdose days after being prescribed tablets by up to three different doctors, an inquest heard today.

A man walked into a police station after a heavy drinking session and announced to police he had stabbed his friend to death, an inquest heard today.

Low-fare airline Ryanair today complained to fair trade officers over “unfair, biased and untrue” rulings against the carrier by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

THE British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has been branded a “bunch of self-appointed dimwits” for banning a Ryanair promotion.

RYANAIR yesterday triggered fresh anger over baggage charges after announcing increases of up to 100% in fees — with the pledge of more to come.

A WAR of words broke out yesterday between Aer Lingus and Ryanair over how many passengers were onboard the former’s inaugural flight between Belfast and London.

RYANAIR launched a seat sale blitz on all of its routes out of Cork Airport yesterday to mark the launch of its first European route from the southern capital.

A bull gored its owner to death in a rage at being driven out of a field of cows, an inquest heard today.

It was business as usual in Irish airports today despite thousands of passengers facing stringent security checks.

Ryanair today announced plans to axe current services from the west of Ireland to London.

Ryanair has announced six new routes from Glasgow (two) and Frankfurt (four).

YOU can take “trading down” as a relative term — especially when you consider that the vendors of Lissarda House in Cork traded down to this quite large Georgian house only in the mid-1990s.

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