Police in the North are investigating another night of disturbances in Co Armagh.

Violence which followed the jailing of three dissident republicans for plotting to kill police officers in the North was branded a disgrace today.

Police are today questioning nine people – including two high-profile republicans – over the murders of two soldiers and a police officer in the North.

Detectives investigating the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll were tonight granted an extra five days to question a teenager and man arrested on Tuesday.

People in the North will today show their anger at the upsurge in terrorist violence as two men continue to be quizzed over the murder of a policeman.

A 37-YEAR-OLD man and a 17-year-old youth were in PSNI custody last night being questioned in relation to the killing of 48-year-old Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, who was shot dead on Saturday night in Craigavon, County Armagh.

ON Craigavon’s Ardowen housing estate, as a mother protested about police heavy handedness and youths taunted officers following the brutal slaying of one of their colleagues, it had the distinct feeling that the bad old days had returned to Northern Ireland.

POLICE have come under petrol bomb and blast bomb attack in the north.

Police today escaped injury after being pelted by petrol bombs and other missiles in Craigavon, Co Armagh.

A bomb was discovered today during a security alert linked to dissident republicans in the North.

Police in the North have resumed their search operation against dissident republicans.

Nine men were in custody tonight after a massive police search for weapons and explosives linked to dissident republicans in the North.

Nine men are being questioned tonight after a massive police search for weapons and explosives linked to dissident republicans in the North.

A money collector was robbed at gunpoint as he sat in his car in the North today.

A teenager’s body was found by a Water Service worker checking out a derelict house gutted by fire in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

THE agony continued yesterday for the parents of a five-year-old boy shot in the head in a primary school playground in the North.

Police investigating the shooting of a five-year-old boy in a school playground were today considering the possibility that he could have been struck by a stray bullet from a hunter’s gun.

Police officers in Northern Ireland are today preparing to interview pupils, teachers and parents about an incident where a five-year-old boy was shot in the head in a school playground.