A former IRA man who attempted to murder a soldier in a 1981 ambush has been jailed for 20 years.

A van abandoned outside a police station in a border town in the North contained a 300lb bomb, police said today.

The body of a man in his 50s has been pulled from a lake in the North.

Former Northern Ireland human rights campaigner Vincent McKenna who was jailed for sexually abusing his daughter failed today in a bid to appeal the severity of his sentence.

A former Northern Ireland human rights campaigner, jailed for three years for sexually abusing his daughter, had his sentence doubled in Dublin today.