A former Ireland rugby international was today cleared of one charge of indecent assault. The jury is still considering 13 other allegations of child sex abuse.

A suspicious device in North Belfast has been declared a hoax.

Police in North Belfast are responding to reports of a suspicious object in the Woodland Avenue area this evening.

The family of an Irishman killed in a plane crash in Central Africa will travel there in the coming days.

CHICKEN processor Moy Park has acquired O’Kane Poultry in a €30 million deal that will result in an operation with a combined staff of 8,500.

The home of the North's former Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan was targeted in a sectarian attack today.

THE former partner of a woman killed in the North 14 years ago was charged with her murder yesterday.

Detectives were today granted a further 36 hours to quiz a man arrested in connection with a murder in the North more than a decade ago.

A former policeman shot himself dead after being challenged about an armed bank robbery in the North, it was revealed today.

Fears were growing today that one of the North’s major engineering employers, bus builder Wrightbus, is about to shed hundreds of jobs.

Police in the North are investigating an alleged assault on a 16-year-old girl at a bonfire in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

A man has been treated in hospital after being shot with a crossbow, police said today.

The UK’s largest bus operator, FirstGroup, today placed a £125m (€155m) order for new vehicles with the North’s leading bus builder, Wrightbus.

Sinn Féin representatives will today quiz the North's police commanders in public for the first time.

A former Irish rugby international has quit Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists, he revealed tonight.

Police in the North have launched a formal murder inquiry following the death of a woman in Ballymena, Co Antrim, earlier this week.

A third former detective is being questioned in a major probe into suspected police collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in the North.

A third former detective was questioned tonight as part of a major probe into suspected police collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers in the North.

A bus builder from the North today won an international order for its mould-breaking new Rapid Transit Vehicle.

Loyalists attacked mourners on their way to the funeral of murdered Catholic schoolboy Michael McIlveen, it was claimed tonight.

The North's Assembly members will gather at Stormont today for the first time in three and a half years as part of a new bid to secure devolution.

Death threats have been made against a young friend of murdered schoolboy Michael McIlveen, her mother claimed today.

ABUSE was hurled at five teenagers as they appeared in court yesterday accused of the sectarian murder of a schoolboy in the North.

Abuse was hurled at five teenagers as they appeared in court today accused of the sectarian murder of a schoolboy in the North.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley has condemned those responsible for the sectarian killing of a teenager in his constituency over the weekend.

Army bomb disposal experts today defused a small improvised bomb near a mainly-Protestant primary school in the heart of Ian Paisley’s constituency.

A sectarian thug who wanted to kill and cut up his battered Catholic victim was jailed for 16 years today.

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

A sectarian attack on a minibus full of junior soccer players in which four boys were injured was condemned by a police chief today.

An unemployed man was accused today of an arson attack that led to a huge rescue operation from a block of flats in Belfast.

Tyre manufacturing giant Michelin is to spend nearly £15m (€22.7m) developing its plant in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

A Northern Ireland Office minister tonight condemned those who planted a pipe bomb under a Sinn Féin member’s van.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said that unionist leaders must speak out in condemnation after a pipe bomb was found outside the home of a party member in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

Loyalists were blamed after a pipe bomb was found today under a car belonging to a member of Sinn Féin.

A Ukrainian man seriously injured in an attack in Northern Ireland may have been targeted by loyalist racists, it emerged today.

British army bomb experts have examined an apparent explosion in a phone box in Northern Ireland.

A man who forced two young girls to take photographs of themselves in sexual acts with him, was given four life jail sentences by a court in Dublin today.

A Democratic Unionist Party councillor has claimed that police officers and British soldiers may have been involved in drug smuggling in the North.

Members of Northern Ireland’s new district policing boards may face a threat from dissident republican terrorists, Chief Constable Hugh Orde warned today.

The Duke of York continued a century-old tradition today when he was presented with a sprig of shamrock during a special St Patrick's Day visit to Northern Ireland.

The mother of the new born baby girl that was found abandoned outside a Gaelic football club has been re-united with her child.

A child was slightly injured in one of two petrol bomb attacks in the North just before midnight last night.

A 33-year-old man is due in court in the North today accused of having paramilitary related documents.