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A police search for an unexploded mortar bomb on the Glen Road in west Belfast is over.

A total of 100 homes and businesses are to be evacuated for days as police search for evidence linked to a suspected mortar attack and shot fired at them.

A pipe bomb with the capacity to kill has been left close to a primary school in the North.

A security alert is underway in Belfast.

Police in the North are appealing for information following the discovery of a hoax device in west Belfast.

Shots have been fired at police officers by suspected dissident republicans in Derry.

Gardai investigating the murder of a 42-year-old father of five near Blarney in Co Cork last week have made a specific appeal for information they say can assist the investigation.

TWO brothers appeared in court last night in connection with the fatal shooting of Packie Hogan near Blarney in Co Cork last week.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man near Blarney in County Cork last Thursday have recovered a firearm.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man in Blarney in Co. Cork last Thursday have made a specific appeal for the public's help.

Gardaí in Cork investigating the killing of Patrick 'Pakie' Hogan have been given permission to extend the period of detention of three men who have been arrested in connection with his murder.

Gardaí in Cork are continuing to question three men arrested in connection with the murder of a 42-year-old man in Blarney.

SNIFFER-DOGS, air support units and Garda units carried out extensive searches just outside Cork city following the ambush-style murder of a 42-year-old father of three near Blarney on Thursday afternoon.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a man in Co Cork yesterday are searching a graveyard for the gun used in the shooting.

A TRAVELLER in his thirties was shot in a murder north of Cork city last night.

Three men have been arrested following a fatal shooting in Cork tonight.

A man in his 30s was shot dead close to the Cork town of Blarney this afternoon.

Detectives in the North are appealing for information following an attempted armed robbery at a convenience store in west Belfast.

Two men are due in court in the North today charged with the murder of a man in west Belfast over the weekend.

A number of children were slightly injured in a crash outside their school in west Belfast today.

DRIVING along Belfast’s Ormeau Road on my way home from work recently, I spotted the early autumnal scene which signifies the arrival of a new academic year.

A taxi driver who came to the aid of a supposedly injured man was lured into a trap, police in Belfast said today.

A man has been shot in an attack which bore all the hallmarks of an old-style paramilitary punishment attack.

WHERE are the bus drivers’ unions? Where are the health service unions? Are they all in the pockets of Fianna Fáil and its cohorts, in well-paid and secure jobs in management?

A woman in her 20s was allegedly raped near a bus station in the North today.

The non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin has asked for permission to hear evidence in Northern Ireland in the trial of a Belfast man accused of shooting dead a man in the city last year.

Nearly 2,000 pupils were evacuated from two west Belfast schools today when a major fire broke out in the former Bass Ireland brewery.

Hundreds of people have attended funeral Mass for murdered greengrocer Harry Holland.

A man will appear in court today charged with attempting to rob a west Belfast bar at gunpoint.

A gunman got more than he bargained for when he tried to rob a west Belfast bar, it was revealed today.

LIVES could be lost in popular Kerry seaside areas because emergency services are having problems in getting access to beaches, it was warned yesterday.

The funeral of Sinn Féin Assembly member Michael Ferguson will take place today in west Belfast.

COUNCILLORS from all sides of the political divide are uniting in an all-out bid to extend the boundary of one of the South-East’s busiest seaside resorts.

A nephew of SDLP leader Mark Durkan tonight showed signs of improvement after suffering head injuries in a fall from a ladder.

Two men were being questioned by police tonight after a multiple road accident in West Belfast in which several people were injured.

FORMER associates of a feared IRA assassin killed by the SAS may have murdered Denis Donaldson, security sources claim.

Police in west Belfast today opened fire on a motorist who drove his car at them.

A SEASIDE town fears it’s going to become a no-go area this summer if the scourge of ‘boy racers’ continues.

Two people were killed and eight others injured after an horrific overnight car crash in West Belfast.

A girl of 15 was subjected to a terrifying rape in west Belfast, police revealed tonight.

A police officer is recovering this morning after being struck by a stolen car in west Belfast.

Work got underway today to dismantle one of Belfast’s best known police stations.

The Bass Ireland Ulster Brewery in west Belfast is to close next year with the loss of up to 85 jobs, it was announced today.