MI5 will have a key role in the decision whether or not to grant anonymity to 14 Northern Ireland police officers implicated in a shoot-to-kill probe.

Top secret reports into allegations the security forces operated a shoot-to-kill policy in the North more than two decades ago are finally to be opened to the North's chief coroner, it was revealed today.

A prominent Irish Times journalist has accused her employer of religious, sexual and political discrimination and victimisation, a tribunal heard today.