Police in the North are dealing with an on-going security operation in Derry this morning.

Police in the North are investigating a shooting incident in Derry in the early hours of this morning.

THE head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady, yesterday strenuously denied the Church colluded in covering up the suspected involvement of a priest in one of the worst terrorist outrages in the Troubles.

Outraged relatives of a notorious IRA bombing which claimed nine lives demanded a fresh investigation today after it emerged the police, British government and Catholic Church conspired to protect the prime suspect, a Catholic priest.

Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Paterson said today that the British Government was “profoundly sorry” that the victims of the 1972 Claudy bombing and their families had been denied justice.

A 63-year-old man arrested earlier this week in connection with the murder of sheep farmer Patrick Devine in Co Tyrone has been charged with offences linked to a separate case.

Three men were arrested tonight by police investigating the murder of a sheep farmer in the North four years ago.

A man was arrested today in connection with the murder of a sheep farmer in Co Derry four years ago this week.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy from Co Derry has drowned at his family’s holiday villa on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

A man shot dead in church grounds on the border may have met his killer in a bar less than an hour before he was assassinated, it was revealed today.

A man has died and another is seriously injured following a car crash in Co Derry this morning.

IN the election campaign, the most ignored and avoided question is: why should the DUP be expected to share power with Sinn Féin while politicians in the Republic are reluctant to do so?

A SINN FÉIN official who had charges dropped against him over a republican spy ring at Stormont claimed that police arrested him as part of a campaign to save David Trimble’s political career.

A Sinn Féin official who had charges dropped against him over a republican spy ring at Stormont claimed today that police arrested him as part of a campaign to save David Trimble’s political career.

Police in the North have released the four people they arrested earlier this week in connection with an IRA bomb attack in the Co Derry village of Claudy 33 years ago.

The PSNI has defended the arrest of a Sinn Féin Assemblyman in connection with an IRA bomb attack in the Co Derry village of Claudy more than 33 years ago.

A SINN FÉIN Assembly member was being questioned by detectives last night about one of the worst IRA atrocities during the Troubles.

A Sinn Féin Assembly member was among four people being questioned today about an IRA atrocity which claimed the lives of nine people 33 years ago.

The Orange Order tonight accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of double standards over terrorism in the North and around the world.

Nine men who were arrested after gardaí swooped on a suspected Continuity IRA training camp in the Comeragh mountains were jailed by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Gardaí discovered four guns, a makeshift firing range and targets when they raided a suspected Continuity IRA training camp at a clearing in the Comeragh mountains, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

A farmer shot dead at his home in Northern Ireland may have been the victim of a feud over sheep-rustling, it emerged today.

A murder inquiry was under way in Northern Ireland today after a sheep farmer was found dead at his isolated farm.

A man was in a stable condition today after being attacked by a masked gang wielding bats in a vicious assault on a farm in Northern Ireland.

The British government will be forced to have a Bloody Sunday-style public inquiry into the 1972 Claudy bombings, Democratic Unionist leader the Rev Ian Paisley predicted today.

The violence in the North reached its bloody height in 1972 – and even the sleepy village of Claudy was plunged right into the mayhem.

This is the timetable of key events surrounding the Claudy bomb massacre 30 years ago.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has called for a full judicial inquiry, similar to the Bloody Sunday tribunal, into the allegations of a cover-up in the Claudy bombing.

The British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in an astonishing cover-up to shield a priest suspected of heading-up the IRA team responsible for one of Northern Ireland’s worst ever bomb atrocities, police claimed today.

Police in the North are expected to release new information about the IRA's attack on the Co Derry village of Claudy 30 years ago.

Terrorists staged a bogus car crash in a bid to lure police officers into a death trap in Derry, it was claimed today.

Tony Blair is having talks with Northern Ireland's party leaders amid heightening fears of a terrorist offensive by dissident republicans.

The RUC has described as sensitive and highly dangerous the ongoing security operation at Claudy in Co Derry.

Army bomb disposal experts are examining a suspect device found at the rear of an RUC station in Co Derry.

A security alert is ongoing in Derry following a series of anonymous phone calls yesterday afternoon claiming a bomb had been left near a police station.

There is a security alert underway this lunchtime in Claudy, Co Derry. The main street is closed off to traffic and premises were evacuated at 12.45 after the discovery of a suspicious van.