From the People’s Republic to the Pedal Republic — Cork’s first public bike scheme went live yesterday, half-finished and six months late.

Three masked men carrying a bomb burst into a bank in the North today and warned terrified customers it would explode in an hour.

Three men arrested yesterday by detectives investigating a gun attack on an off-duty police officer in Derry have been released without charge.

Dissident republicans have been blamed after a police officer was blasted with a shotgun outside a school in the North today.