The secret dumping of radioactive waste in landfill sites in Belfast and Derry posed no risk to human health, a British Department of the Environment review has stated.

Remains of a 410-year-old fort have been discovered on the banks of the River Foyle.

A Dublin “drug baron” has been jailed for 18 years for transporting €6.2m worth of heroin in his van.

A man has been shot in an attack which bore all the hallmarks of an old-style paramilitary punishment attack.

Businessmen hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Fein councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed today.