The West Bank Palestinian leadership formally decided to press ahead with efforts in September to win United Nations recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem

LADIES FOOTBALL chiefs in Tyrone have launched an investigation into horrific attacks which left two people unconscious at the end of the county senior football championship final.

A sporting venue that has deep symbolic importance for the people of Ireland will be visited by the Queen during her tour of the country.

A 33-YEAR-OLD man arrested in connected with the murder of Catholic PSNI officer Ronan Kerr on April 2 will appear in court tomorrow charged with terrorism offences.

The Queen will be steeped in the traditions and history of the Gaelic Athletic Association in an historic visit to Croke Park.

POLICE hunting the killers of Ronan Kerr arrested a suspect after discovering a “significant” haul of arms, including rocket launcher components and detonators.

THE crimson red of the Gaelic football shirts; the bottle green of the police uniform.

The head of the Catholic church in Ireland called for an end to the futility and evil of violence in a powerful statement at Pc Ronan Kerr’s funeral today.

Police officers and senior nationalist sporting officials shouldered the coffin of murdered Catholic constable Ronan Kerr at his funeral today in an unprecedented show of unity.

Huge crowds have turned out to pay their last respects to PSNI officer Ronan Kerr who was murdered by dissident republicans in the North at the weekend, and who is being buried this afternoon.

Political leaders and police chiefs from both sides of the Border will be among mourners today at the funeral of Catholic police officer Ronan Kerr, who was murdered by dissident republicans.

AS the funeral of Ronan Kerr takes place today, fears mount that a new dissident group may have been behind the murder as no one has claimed responsibility.

A massive trade unionist anti-violence rally is planned in Belfast city centre tomorrow following the death of Pc Ronan Kerr.

The Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Matt Baggott will meet with political leaders at Stormont today to condemn the attack which killed an officer on Saturday.

TRUE, Tyrone have fallen by the wayside in this year’s All-Ireland football championship, victims of Cork’s insatiable appetite for the ultimate honour, but we have not seen the last of them.

Deric Henderson

A family at the centre of new searches for the missing Northern Bank millions have protested their innocence.

Police investigating the pre-Christmas robbery at Northern Bank headquarters in Belfast are continuing to search two houses and a scrapyard in Co Tyrone.

Republicans tonight expressed anger at a police search operation in Co Tyrone in connection with the £26.5m (€38.4m) Northern Bank raid.

A SPECIAL Branch officer is to be questioned in a new twist to the police investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity.

A Northern Ireland Special Branch officer is to be questioned in a new twist to the police investigation into the Omagh bomb atrocity, it emerged today.