The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog.

The body of one of the IRA’s Disappeared victims has been formally identified weeks after being dug out of a bog in Co Meath.

The first woman bishop Ireland or the UK has been installed by the Anglican Church.

Controversial plans to build an incinerator at Lough Neagh are to be challenged in the High Court in Belfast, it was disclosed today.

Police were tonight trying to establish what was behind the murder of a financial adviser.

Police hunting the killers of a 60-year-old financial adviser were today examining a partially burnt-out car abandoned a few miles from his home.

A water safety warning affecting 220,000 households across the North is likely to last throughout today, officials confirmed.

A Co Antrim river is being restocked after being brought back to life following years of constant pollution.

In the North, a security alert is underway in the centre of Larne, after a suspicious device was found at Agnew Street.

Police in the North are investigating the discovery of a suspect device in Co Antrim.

Heavy overnight rain has caused major traffic disruption in the North this morning, with floods affecting roads in Armagh, Fermanagh, Down and Antrim.

Up to 200 Richardson's Fertilisers workers who lost their pensions in 2002 when the company folded are to receive compensation from the British government.

Belfast’s four electoral areas could face major expansion under revised plans for new Parliamentary constituencies in the North, it emerged today.

Detectives are investigating a series of fires at homes in a west Belfast street tonight, three days after a man was murdered.

Award-winning filmmaker Neil Jordan today revealed he will travel to Hollywood to make his next movie.

Two Irish films - including Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto - starring a host of top actors are set to premiere on the world stage at a major UK festival, it was confirmed today.

A SCHOOLBOY soccer match erupted into a full-scale riot as up to 80 parents, players and supporters fought viciously in the middle of the pitch, shocked eye-witnesses revealed yesterday.

A SUSPECTED drugs baron at the centre of a major probe in the North is a former police officer.

A suspected drugs baron at the centre of a major investigation in Northern Ireland is a former police officer, it emerged today.

Assets which include nearly 50 properties have been frozen as part of a major investigation into the affairs of an alleged Northern Ireland-based drugs dealer, it was revealed today.

AN ALLEGED Northern Ireland-based drugs dealer, who owns an apartment in Dublin and companies here, has had assets and 50 properties worth over €7 million frozen as part of a major investigation.

Filmmaker Neil Jordan will today begin shooting scenes from his latest production in Northern Ireland.

A family in north Belfast was recovering from shock today after their house was set alight during a night of violence in the city.