The Police Service of Northern Ireland investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man early this morning.

Investigators who cleared the RUC of having any advance knowledge of a loyalist paramilitary pub massacre were hampered by missing paperwork, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman who triggered the probe claimed today.

Nine people were being questioned tonight after police smashed a counterfeiting racket at a street market in the North.

ROSE of Tralee compére Ray D’Arcy believes judges at this year’s contest face an impossible task in picking a winner tomorrow.

LOYALIST mass murderer and suspected police agent Torrens Knight was paid £50,000 (€73,186) a year after being released from jail, it was claimed yesterday.

A loyalist killer and suspected police agent was paid £50,000 (€73,193) a year after being released from jail, it was claimed today.

LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight was a double agent shielded by the Special Branch before he murdered eight people in the Greysteel massacre, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat claimed yesterday.

A convicted loyalist murderer, released early under the Good Friday Agreement, was tonight facing the prospect of serving out eight life sentences for his involvement in a 1993 atrocity, after being convicted of taking part in a knife attack at a football match.

The victims of yesterday's two road accidents have been named by gardaí and the PSNI.

A group of elderly women on their way home from a night’s bingo were terrified when their bus was stoned and paint-bombed.

Police urged motorists to take care today after thunderstorms swept across Northern Ireland.

Buses carrying Orangemen back from Twelfth of July parades have reportedly been stoned by crowds in Counties Antrim and Derry.