One man is still in Garda custody in Co Leitrim after a shootout between dissident republicans and police in the North on Saturday night.

Police in the North are investigating two separate incidents.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested in County Leitrim in connection with a ambush on police in the North.

A licensed gun dealer in the North was held up at gunpoint and robbed of a number of weapons, it was revealed today.

A licensed gun dealer in the North was held up at gunpoint and robbed of a number of weapons, it was revealed today.

THE State is facing a €150 million bill to clean up the estimated 600,000 tonnes of rubbish illegally dumped in the North.

IT has been raining in Fermanagh most of the week, but no spirits have been dampened around Lisnaskea. As they say in these parts, it’s been a wild good summer.

ORGANISED criminal gangs, possibly with paramilitary connections, are involved in the large-scale and lucrative business of transporting waste from the Republic and illegally dumping it over the Border, authorities in the North believe.

THE IDEAL retirement home, or a bolt-hole for a committed angler, is on offer on an elevated site overlooking the Blackwater.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today facing the prospect of a more hardline Assembly team as some of his harshest critics in the party were selected as candidates for the next Stormont election.

Sinn Fein’s first woman MP for 83 years has given birth to her first child, it was announced today.

Ulster Unionists seeking to oust a Sinn Fein MP over alleged polling station intimidation were today hearing if they have won their legal fight.

The Ulster Unionist Party has accused Sinn Fein of intimidating electoral officers to ensure that Michelle Gildernew won the Fermanagh and south Tyrone seat in the last general election.

The Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein were today preparing for a Belfast High Court showdown over a hotly disputed General Election result.