An investigation is underway after education authority records on pupils and parents dating back to 1969 were found at the side of a road in south Armagh.

Sinn Féin has welcomed the swift decision of army chiefs to start the process of tearing down military watchtowers in south Armagh.

A MILITARY base in the North is to close as part of major new normalisation moves announced yesterday in the wake of the IRA’s decision to halt its armed struggle.

AN early act of decommissioning by the IRA, possibly this weekend, could pave the way for talks aimed at restoring devolution in the North beginning as early as September.

Unionists have reacted furiously to the decision to close an army watchtower in south Armagh.

British customs officers seized more than 60,000 litres of illegal fuel from filling stations along the Northern Ireland border, they said tonight.

A 22-year-old man has sustained two broken arms, a broken leg and puncture wounds after being attacked by a mob in Co Armagh.

A 22-year-old man tonight suffered two broken arms, a broken leg and puncture wounds after a frenzied attack by a mob in Co Armagh.

IN Armagh even the republicans are turning orange, while in Kerry the sheep have been painted green and gold.

A fire has destroyed a row of shops in a village outside Newry in Co Down.

Ulster Unionist ministers in the Stormont Executive were returning to their ministerial desks today, as the British Army dismantled four military installations in response to IRA decommissioning.

Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid was today poised to announce a series of measures to bolster the peace process after the IRA put its weapons beyond use in a historic move.

The British Government was today poised to put into operation a series of measures to bolster the Northern Ireland peace process in the event of an IRA act of decommissioning.