A cache of ammunition has been discovered in the North, police said.

The PSNI are examining a suspicious object in South Armagh this morning.

I USED to dread Margaret Thatcher coming to the North because it meant 12 hours in the company of the IRA’s No 1 target.

By Deric Henderson, Press Association Ireland Editor

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

Police in Newry are appealing for information following a hijacking involving a southern car in Forkhill, Co Armagh.

Seven men have been arrested and around eight million suspected counterfeit cigarettes seized in the North.

The North’s new Secretary of State Owen Paterson today held out the prospect of devolving corporation tax powers to the Stormont Assembly.

Police in the North will today carry out a painstaking investigation into a car bomb attack by dissident republicans.

An ATM has been stolen from a shop in Forkhill, Co Armagh.

A number of homes in Co Fermanagh have been evacuated amid fears that dissident republicans may have planted a roadside bomb in the area.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has condemned the people who planted a huge bomb on a roadside in south Armagh last week.

The ongoing threat posed by dissident republicans is back on the public agenda following the defusing of a large bomb on a roadside in south Armagh yesterday.

A MASSIVE 600-lb bomb planted close to the border with the North was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said last night.

A huge bomb planted close to the border was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said tonight.

British army bomb disposal experts have defused a large explosive device found planted close to the border in south Armagh today.

ONE of the chief suspects in the Omagh bomb massacre is dead, it was revealed yesterday.

One of the chief suspects in the Omagh bomb massacre is now dead, it was revealed today.

A WITNESS in the Omagh bomb trial was “got at” before coming into court to give evidence, a senior defence lawyer claimed today.

The last British army observation post on the North's border will be removed within days, it was confirmed today.

The British government today signalled its plans to give the green light for the construction of cross-border gas pipeline.

TWO people were arrested yesterday in connection with an armed robbery in which a family were held captive.

A MILITARY base in the North is to close as part of major new normalisation moves announced yesterday in the wake of the IRA’s decision to halt its armed struggle.

DESPITE the scepticism from some quarters — unionists in general and the DUP in particular — which greeted the IRA’s statement that they had ended the armed struggle, the fact remains that the organisation will be scrutinised by two independent bodies which will be able to audit their intent.

AN early act of decommissioning by the IRA, possibly this weekend, could pave the way for talks aimed at restoring devolution in the North beginning as early as September.

Unionists have reacted furiously to the decision to close an army watchtower in south Armagh.

AN electrician is to be charged later this month with murdering 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb massacre, the High Court in the North was told yesterday.

An electrician is to be charged later this month with murdering 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb massacre, the Northern Ireland High Court was told today.

A man is to be charged with murdering the 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb atrocity, it emerged tonight.

The van used in the £26.5m (€38m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast before Christmas crossed the border from the Irish Republic a couple of hours before the raid, police revealed today.

An early-morning accident near Newry, Co Down, has left two people dead and another two fighting for their lives.

A senior backbench member of Fianna Fáil today called on the London and Dublin governments to consider permitting the Garda Síochána to operate in the Northern Ireland borderside villages of Crossmaglen and Forkhill.

POLICING representatives called off a meeting in a republican area of the North yesterday following fierce resistance from residents.

Policing representatives called off a meeting in a republican area of Northern Ireland today following fierce resistance from residents.

The British government should decommission an army base close to the border with the Republic, Fianna Fáil chairman Seamus Kirk claimed tonight.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

A jury has found a Co Louth man guilty of involvement in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy in 1996 and has acquitted a retired garda of the same charge arising out of what was called "a dramtic accident that never happened".

A lorry driver accused of conspiracy in the Ir£151,000 alleged insurance trial has told the jury in evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he had nothing to do with the claims made.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was quite positive and upbeat in his remarks yesterday about the Northern peace process.

The father of a 20-year-old student who was badly beaten near Forkhill in Co Armagh last month has blamed the IRA for the attack.

Three Catholic churches in south Armagh have been damaged following weekend break-ins.

An investigation was continuing today after an RAF helicopter crashed in Northern Ireland, injuring seven people.

Eight people were today airlifted to hospital after an Army helicopter crashed into a mountain in Northern Ireland.

A man died and another person was seriously injured in a crash along the border.