Tributes have been paid to the top archeologist who helped bring closure to the anguished families of the North’s Disappeared.

The brother of a newly-wed murdered and secretly buried by the IRA has expressed hope of finally finding his body ahead of fresh searches commencing in remote bogland today.

Fresh searches for one of the IRA’s so-called Disappeared victims are to start in Meath within days, it has been confirmed.

Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum is set to be transferred from Peru to a jail in Northern Ireland.

Tyrone woman, Michaella McCollum, who was jailed for drug smuggling in Peru last year is to be transferred to a prison in the North.

The family of one of two women sentenced to almost seven years in jail for trying to smuggle €1.75m of cocaine out of Peru has insisted she is innocent.

The family of Michaella McCollum - the Tyrone woman sentenced to almost seven years in jail for trying to smuggle €1.7m of cocaine out of Peru has insisted she is innocent.

A British House of Lords peer Ken Maginnis has dropped his appeal against his conviction for assaulting a man in a road-rage incident.

Drug mules Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid could face a six-month investigation if their guilty pleas are not accepted, the Peruvian prosecutor in charge of their case has said.

A new search for the remains of a teenager kidnapped and murdered by the IRA nearly 40 years ago has been called off.

A former boyfriend of drugs mule Michaella McCollum has claimed her party girl public image was not a true reflection of her character.

The Irish and Scottish women accused of attempting to smuggle €1.5m worth of cocaine out of Peru have pleaded guilty, court officials said.

An Irish woman and a Scottish woman have pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine out of Peru, sources said tonight.

The prosecutor handling the case two women arrested in Peru last month has said he does not believe that they were coerced into carrying the drugs or in any way threatened.

The family of one of two women arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth €1.7m out of Peru have said she will plead guilty to “play the game” and avoid a heftier sentence.

One of two women arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5m out of Peru is prepared to plead guilty in exchange for a short sentence.

A Democratic Unionist councillor has appeared in court in the North charged in connection with a comment she posted on Facebook.

An Irishwoman and her friend, arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth €1.7m from Peru could find out today if they are to be charged.

Spanish police have cast doubt on claims by two women arrested in Peru for cocaine smuggling that they were forced to carry the drugs by armed gang members.

An Irishwoman arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling in Peru will plead not guilty if charged, her solicitor has said.

IT’S not that long ago since the rare passive house _ a “green’’ building making maximum use of energy efficiencies _ would grab headlines in Ireland and be highlighted in a freaky kind of style as the way of the future.

A man has appeared in court accused of obtaining a car which was later used in the killing of a prison officer in the North.

A policeman remained silent when asked what he did with one of the men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey the morning after the crime.

Lawyers clashed this morning at the trial of two men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey after defence counsel attempted to delve into the private lives of her and her husband.

Final security measures have been rehearsed at Mauritius’s Supreme Court ahead of the trial of two men accused of murdering Michaela McAreavey, the daughter of Tyrone football manager Mickey Harte.

An eight-man IRA unit wiped out by SAS gunmen after they launched a bomb attack on an Armagh police station nearly 25 years ago opened fire first on the undercover soldiers, it has been claimed.

A former IRA man who attempted to murder a soldier in a 1981 ambush has been jailed for 20 years.

A man who saved his wife from the New Zealand earthquake has been hailed a hero.

The daughter of Tyrone GAA manager Mickey Harte has been found dead on her honeymoon in Mauritius.

I AM writing on behalf of the members of the 1916-1921 Club whose main objective is to honour and remember the dead who fought for Irish freedom and all those who worked for the same cause.

IN the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the significant loss of life that ensued, the poet WB Yeats posed the question: “Did that play of mine send out certain men the English shot?” Yeats was referring to his 1902 play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, which was overtly nationalist and republican in sentiment.

A COUPLE were jailed in the North yesterday after admitting a £4.6 million (€5.14m) tax fraud.

A middle-aged Lithuanian woman died today after being found on a road with head injuries.

A 44-year-old man was today arrested by police investigating the theft of cash machines in the North.

TWELVE Irish people have been caught up in violence between Egyptian police and members of a convoy bringing humanitarian aid destined for Gaza, with their families concerned that they are entering “a war zone”.

Businesses must not cut spending on training as the recession bites, the North's Employment Commissioner said today.

Three members of a missing boy’s family were arrested today after police found the teenager during house searches.

Three men appeared in court today charged with murdering a father of three walking home from his daughter's 18th birthday party.

Three men were charged with murder tonight after a man was stabbed to death in the North.

Another man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Eamonn Hughes in Dungannon, Co Tyrone at the weekend.

A man who was shot dead just yards from a church in Ireland three months ago was the first victim of the hard-line republican group Oglaigh na hEireann, it was revealed today.

A Catholic man stabbed 12 years ago in the North was the victim of a sectarian killing, an inquest heard today.

Police in the North are investigating the theft of a large sum of money from an elderly woman in Dungannon, Co Tyrone, yesterday.

Police in the North are continuing to hold a 21-year-old man for questioning in relation to the death of Sean Fitzpatrick in Dungannon yesterday morning.