A crudely assembled bomb has exploded at a GAA ground in the North but caused only minor damage, police said.

Extensive searches have been carried out for a missing cyclist in the North after his bicycle was discovered close to the sea.

A baby who died in the North had swine flu, Stormont’s health minister confirmed tonight.

Drugs worth more than £1m (€1.17m) were seized by police in the North, officers said.

Former PSNI assistant chief constable Peter Sheridan today challenged the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) to lead people towards reconciliation in the North.

A woman is in a critical condition following a house fire in Co Antrim.

A senior Democratic Unionist tonight rejected claims by Gerry Adams that his party did nothing to help deliver peaceful Twelfth of July Orange Order marches.

An Irish tricolour insulting a Northern Irish sectarian murder victim has been placed on top of a bonfire in Co Antrim.

GINA McIlveen collapsed onto the coffin carrying the body of her murdered son Michael. “My baby, my baby,” she sobbed, engulfed by the enormity of her loss.

IN the last hours before Shannon Sickels and Gráinne Close made history today, they sat in a Belfast nail bar sipping champagne with their feet soaking in warm soapy water.

A LOYALIST paramilitary feud which claimed the lives of four people in Belfast this summer could erupt again, the IMC report warned.

A loyalist paramilitary feud which claimed the lives of four people in Belfast this summer could erupt again, a report monitoring terror groups warned today.

A NORTH Antrim local authority must stop using public funds to finance Protestant marching season bonfires, an Antrim residents’ group said yesterday during a visit to the Dáil.

A North Antrim local authority must stop using public funds to finance Protestant marching season bonfires, it was claimed today.

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on police and soldiers for a second night running amid ferocious new rioting on the streets of the North.

A NEW generation in Northern Ireland is being blooded in sectarian hatred, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

THIRTY two police officers were injured after loyalist terrorists unleashed one of the "most dangerous riots" across Belfast and beyond, Chief Constable Hugh Orde revealed last night.

A new generation in the North is being blooded in sectarian hatred, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said today.

Sectarian attacks on Catholic homes in the north Antrim area must stop and those responsible for the violence must be brought to justice, the Rev Ian Paisley said today.

Young teenagers are increasingly at the centre of sectarian disturbances and attacks in the North, Chief Constable Hugh Orde said today.

A 13-year-old boy will today appear in court charged with an arson attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena.

Police are mounting undercover patrols to try to halt an escalating sectarian campaign of attacks on Catholic homes, schools and churches in north Antrim.

Northern Ireland’s most senior policeman Hugh Orde was today challenged to acknowledge his officers made mistakes in allowing loyalist paramilitaries to take over a Belfast housing estate where families were forced to flee their homes.

THE DUP has condemned the latest wave of sectarian attacks after another night of violence in the North.

Young people must be shielded from the sectarian violence plaguing parts of the North, the children’s commissioner said tonight.

SOMETHING more sinister than ethnic cleansing is happening at the moment in the North, according to Deputy Chief Constable Paul Leighton.

THE PSNI response to the orgy of pyromania directed at the Catholic community in Ahoghill, Co Antrim, is bizarre.

The Bishop of Down and Connor, Patrick Walsh, has been visiting the Co Antrim village of Ahoghill to show his support for parishioners targeted in a recent spate of sectarian attacks.

A vicious campaign of paint and petrol bomb attacks on Catholics living in an under-siege village in Northern Ireland is worse than ethnic cleansing, a top police officer claimed today.

Unionist politicians were urged by a senior politician in the Republic today to take a strong line against sectarian attacks on Catholic homes in Northern Ireland.

A Catholic couple are leaving their home in the Co Antrim village of Ahoghill after it was paint-bombed by loyalists last night.

Police in the North are investigating a sectarian paint-bomb attack on a house in the Co Antrim village of Ahoghill last night.

The North's most senior policeman was today urged to adopt a get-tough attitude to loyalist paramilitary leaders following a recent wave of sectarian attacks.

Ulster Unionist North Antrim Assemblyman Reverend Robert Coulter has said the intimidation of catholic families in the Ahoghill area near Ballymena and ongoing attacks on a Harryville Church must stop immediately.

Loyalists staged a noisy protest in Ballymena, Co Antrim, last night as republicans held an internment commemoration march in the staunchly unionist town.

CATHOLIC families were given fire blankets yesterday in an unprecedented move by police attempting to thwart sectarian attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in the North.

Catholic families were handed fire blankets today in an unprecedented move by police attempting to thwart sectarian attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland

Loyalist paramilitaries behind a double pipe bomb attack in a Northern Ireland village planned to kill, police said today.

A family escaped injury when a bomb exploded outside their home in Northern Ireland early today.

Tensions are rising in the North in advance of the Orange Order's annual Twelfth of July parades tomorrow.

The SDLP has accused loyalists of forcing a Catholic woman to flee her home of 50 years in the mainly Protestant village of Ahoghill in Co Antrim.

Police have begun a murder inquiry after a retired RUC officer was found dead in his home in Co. Antrim.

Police in the north are treating as murder the death of 65-year-old William Kennedy in Co Antrim.