Gerry Adams has left Antrim police station by a rear exit as loyalists protested outside the building following his release from custody after four days of questioning over a notorious IRA murder.

The PSNI has been granted a further 48 hours by a judge to question Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.

Detectives investigating the IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville more than 40 years ago have arrested a 57-year-old woman.

Detectives investigating the IRA murder of Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville more than 40 years ago have arrested a 57-year-old woman.

A man has been arrested by police following an incendiary bomb attack on a shop in Northern Ireland.

A stonemason was being questioned last night about the suspicious deaths of three former girlfriends in a rural town in the North.

Three men have been arrested by police investigating the attempted murder of a PSNI officer in the North who was shot as he waited at traffic lights.

Two men and a woman have been arrested over the murder of Northern Ireland prison officer David Black.

A man has been arrested today for questioning about a murder in the North 36 years ago.

A teenage girl has been shot dead and her sister seriously injured in a gun attack in a small village in the North.

A woman was arrested today by detectives investigating the murder of a policeman who was blown up by dissident republicans earlier this year.

A 21-year-old woman has been charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition in suspicious circumstances and with the intent to endanger life by police investigating dissident republicans.

An army bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion today on a mortar found among a haul of dissident republican weaponry.

A 22-year-old man was arrested in the North today following the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll by dissident republicans.

Two men arrested by detectives investigating the murder of a police officer in the North have been released without charge, the PSNI said

Shots were fired over the coffin of an IRA killer today in a blatant display of paramilitarism by dissident republicans.

Police in the North have arrested three men for questioning about dissident republican activity.

Police in the North are questioning a man in connection with the murder of a woman in Co Antrim 14 years ago.

A 17-year-old boy is due to appear in court today charged with the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll in Co Armagh earlier this month.

The DUP has condemned a protest outside Antrim police station against the continuing detention of 11 people in connection with the murders of two British soldiers and a police officer earlier this month.

Police are today questioning nine people – including two high-profile republicans – over the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in the North.

Detectives are today questioning nine people in connection with the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in the North after a series of raids where investigators seized a gun and ammunition.

A 39-year-old man was tonight arrested by detectives investigating the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

A THIRD man was last night being questioned by detectives investigating the £26.5 million (€39m) Northern Bank heist in Belfast.

THE home of a man questioned about the murder of a missing retired librarian in Northern Ireland has been searched.