The murder of a Catholic community worker beaten to death by a Protestant mob in the North was primitive, premeditated evil, a priest told mourners at his funeral today.

The sectarian attack that saw a Protestant mob beat a Catholic man to death in the North could have been prevented by police, the victim’s family claimed today.

Part of a transatlantic telecommunications link will be built in Derry, it was announced tonight.

Two computer discs containing names and addresses of 7,685 Northern Ireland motorists have been lost, a letter from the UK's Department of the Environment confirmed.

A list of Sinn Féin supporters was posted in a town today hours after two Catholic homes were targeted in sectarian petrol bomb attacks.

A 12-year-old boy said by police to have been “traumatised” by a robbery at his home was recovering from his ordeal today.

Accusations that the Ulster Defence Association broke its ceasefire to firebomb a house could provoke bomb attacks by dissident republicans, it was claimed tonight.

Unionists hardliners opposed to the peace process were accused tonight of stirring sectarianism among young loyalists after a new outbreak of attacks on Catholic homes in Northern Ireland.

A man was due in court today on charges connected with a planned car bomb attack at Northern Ireland’s biggest street festival.

A man has been treated for smoke inhalation after a petrol bomb was thrown into a flat he was sleeping in.