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A man has been charged with attempted murder after a child was discovered with a fractured skull.

A man has been charged with attempted murder after a child was discovered with a fractured skull.

Police are investigating the cause of a fire that killed thousands of pigs at a farm in the North.

A farm blaze that killed thousands of pigs in Northern Ireland was accidental, fire investigators have said.

Up to 4,300 pigs have died in a suspected arson attack at a farm in Northern Ireland.

A suspected illegal animal slaughter house and meat cutting plant has been uncovered in the North, the Food Standards Agency has said.

An IRA sniper convicted of killing the last British soldier to die before the Good Friday peace agreement has been found dead.

A pipe bomb has exploded in a village in Armagh, police said today.

A party which lasted for days ended in tragedy after a man took the former legal-high drug mephedrone, an inquest has heard.

A young mother has been raped while out walking near Bessbrook, Co Armagh, with her two children.

Two teenagers were taken to hospital after street disturbances, the PSNI said today.

One of the alleged Omagh bombers was remanded in custody in Belfast today following a legal bid to extradite him to Lithuania to face arms smuggling charges.

The decision to site Army bases far from the border is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing of unionists from republican strongholds, it was claimed today.

Soldiers will pull out of south Armagh today on a day of reflection for fallen comrades, the army said.

Another major milestone in the North’s return to normality was being reached today with the last soldiers leaving the former IRA stronghold of South Armagh.

Another major milestone in the North’s return to normality will be reached tomorrow when the last British soldiers are pulled out of South Armagh.

South Armagh is using its past as a terrorist killing ground to help build a future as a tourist destination, it was revealed today.

Ornamental candles burning in a bedroom are believed to have started a fire in which a man died.

An elderly woman suffered burns when her night-dress was set alight by a firework deliberately thrown at her, it was revealed today.

Planners were today urged to go back to the future with a series of eco-villages across Northern Ireland based on the design of a village in south Armagh.

A 24-year-old woman was recovering from stab wounds after she was attacked in a car park in a rural village.

A body recovered from a south Armagh river has been identified by police as a local man.

TROOP levels in the North are about to drop to the lowest level in 30 years.

The British army has said its demilitarisation programme in the North should be completed a full year ahead of schedule.

Troop levels in the North are about to drop to their lowest level in 30 years, it was confirmed today.

A HUSBAND and wife on their way to a funeral with an American relative were among five people killed on the nation’s roads over the weekend.

A man was being questioned by police in the North after a stabbing in Co Armagh.

The mother of a Dublin-born soldier who died while serving in Iraq with the British army's Irish Guards used a St Patrick’s Day visit to the regiment in South Armagh by Princess Anne to condemn the war.

A 14-year-old boy is recovering this morning after being beaten in a paramilitary-style punishment attack in Co Armagh last night.

The British army is investigating an incident in which an 80-year-old was injured after being blown off her feet by a helicopter.

PAT DALY of Ballinhassig, Co. Cork will have one of the leading fancies for the Boyle Bookmakers Derby at Clonmel in February following the success of his impressive puppy Judicial Castlelu in the final of the Patsy Byrne Corn na Féile Derby at Abbeyfeale.

Firefighters in Northern Ireland today held out the possibility of breaking their strike if a full-scale emergency occurs during the 48-hour stoppage.

The IRA has been responsible for death and terror both in Northern Ireland and on mainland Britain for more than three decades.

A residents’ group in south Armagh is considering taking legal action against the British Army over helicopter noise, it emerged tonight.

Up to 26 RUC stations have been earmarked for closure in the North, it was confirmed today.

The residents who were evacuated from their homes in the south Armagh village of Bessbrook were allowed to return last night.

There has been political condemnation from all sides in the North after last night's bomb attack in the south Armagh village of Bessbrook.

The RUC has condemned last night's mortar attack on one of its bases in south Armagh as "a reckless act of violence".

Police were today investigating reports of an explosion close to the Bessbrook security base in South Armagh.

The RUC has launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a teenager's body in the North.

The RUC and British Army have found evidence of three or more blasts on the Dublin-Belfast railway line.