Nine men are being questioned tonight after a massive police search for weapons and explosives linked to dissident republicans in the North.

Two men were charged today with conspiring to murder members of the security forces in the North.

A former British agent who spied on the IRA was released without charge tonight after being questioned about two murders in Northern Ireland.

A BRITISH agent who spied on the IRA was being questioned last night about two murders in the North.

Republicans in the dissident Real IRA today admitted firebombing British-owned stores near the border.

Northern Ireland’s “primitive” rail transport and “frustrating” road congestion came under fire today at the beginning of an international conference on the Belfast-Dublin economic corridor.

The cross-border rail link between Belfast and Dublin has been closed after several explosions were heard in the vicinity of the line.

Troops were back on the streets of another Northern Ireland town tonight as security chiefs fought to combat the growing campaign of loyalist sectarian bomb attacks on Catholic homes.