Police in the North arrested one man last night following the first outbreak of violence for years at the interface between the Catholic Falls Road and the Protestant Shankill area of Belfast.

Actor and campaigner Danny Glover has been found guilty in the US of trespassing at a hotel during a union rally last year.

Up to 80% of children in Belfast’s most deprived areas are living in poverty, it was claimed tonight.

Rival gangs are arranging sectarian clashes in Belfast city centre's so-called "neutral zone", university researchers revealed today.

THE MARTINS at Togher Church near Dunmanway returned from Africa to find their homes newly-painted white to match the new paint job of the church, on the eaves of which they annually raise families.

Republicans were tonight preparing to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands with a number of events throughout Ireland.

Three police officers were injured during a hit and run incident in Co Antrim, it emerged today.

A gang who forced a taxi driver to drive a large firebomb to a west Belfast police station put hundreds of lives at risk, a nationalist politician claimed today.

Police in the North today ended forensic examinations in the two homes taken over by the gang behind last week’s £22m (€31.3m) bank heist in Belfast.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has challenged Sinn Féin to say where it stands on paramilitary activity after the IRA was allegedly involved in an abduction in Belfast last night.

A HOUSE of Commons committee is to visit Belfast to study child poverty on both sides of the peace line.

A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said – the first person known to have done it and lived.

Gunmen who shot a west Belfast man dead at his home were drunk when they did it, the victim’s mother said today.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is due to meet officials from the Parades Commission today to discuss a loyalist march in west Belfast tomorrow.

The SDLP has asked police in Belfast to take a number of measures to ensure that this Saturday's Orange Order parade in west Belfast passes off peacefully.

Police officers were today shutting the gates of a station in the heart of republican west Belfast for the last time.

An arson attack has forced 15 homeless families to flee their Belfast hostel.