Two of the most senior RUC officers murdered by the IRA in the Troubles were ambushed following a leak from a Garda station, a damning report has found.

Police probing the murder of Robert McCartney in the North have arrested a man.

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

FAMILIES of Omagh bomb victims have pledged to stick with their marathon legal battle after two men successfully appealed a court ruling that had found them responsible for the 1998 outrage.

The M1 between Newry and and Jonesborough has been closed for a security operation this morning after a suspicious vehicle was discovered.

A man suspected of killing a British undercover soldier in the North more than 30 years ago appeared in court today.

The man cleared of the Omagh bomb massacre appeared in court today charged with drink driving.

Bomb disposal experts in the North are removing what they are describing as a viable device from a road side in Co Armagh.

A republican fugitive arrested for questioning about the murder of British Captain Robert Nairac had been living under an assumed name, it was revealed tonight.

An officer accused of lying during the Omagh bomb trial has been “repositioned” within the PSNI, police said.

Omagh murder-accused Sean Hoey has been found not gulity of all charges relating to the Omagh bombing.

The verdict will be delivered today in the trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the North's worst ever terrorist atrocity.

The judge in the Omagh bomb trial is due to deliver his verdict on Thursday.

Solicitors for the parents of Madeleine McCann have no plans to have talks about controversial DNA testing with legal representatives of a man accused of the Omagh bombing, a family spokesman said tonight.

GARDAÍ who investigated the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh will not testify in a civil action by relatives of those who died.

BRUCE Springsteen’s devastation at the death of legendary promoter Jim Aiken was revealed yesterday as the entertainment world turned out for his memorial service.

President Mary McAleese was one of the last people to visit top concert promoter Jim Aiken before his death.

THE Omagh bomb trial ended yesterday with a call to the judge to acquit the accused.

The Omagh bombing was carried out jointly by the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA rather than just by the RIRA alone, the trial of the man accused of murdering the 29 victims of the 1998 atrocity was told by an FBI agent today.

The marathon Omagh bomb trial is expected to finish next Tuesday, a lawyer revealed today.

Alleged Omagh bomb mass murderer Sean Hoey turned down the chance to give evidence at his trial today.

A detonator used in a terrorist plot underwent unexplained changes after it was first examined, the Omagh bomb trial heard today.

The Omagh bomb trial reopens today, when the defence team for Sean Hoey, the alleged Real IRA dissident republican, begins its case.

Two of the 58 charges faced by Sean Hoey in the ongoing Omagh bomb trial are to be dropped, a judge in Belfast ruled today.

Unrelated charges against a man accused of making the Omagh bomb are expected to be dropped after a prosecutor admitted to gaps in the evidence.

A key forensic technique used to connect the Omagh bomb suspect to the crime contains ambiguities which may make its results unreliable, a court heard today.

Former IRA man turned British agent Kevin Fulton must be given special protection if he gives evidence at the Omagh bomb trial, a court heard today.

BOMBS made in the run-up to the republican explosion in Omagh, which killed 29 people, were all made by the same person, a witness told a court in Northern Ireland yesterday.

Bombs made in the run-up to the dissident republican explosion in Omagh, which killed 29 people, were all made by the same person, a witness told a court in Northern Ireland today.

Two detectives lied under oath while giving evidence at the trial of a man accused of being involved in the Omagh bombings, a court heard today.

The credibility and reliability of police witnesses in a terrorist bomb trial in the North should be treated with caution, a prosecutor said today.

Dates were altered on the label attached to evidence seized from the scene of a terrorist attack on a police station, the Omagh bomb trial heard today.

THE Omagh bomb trial was dramatically halted yesterday when the senior defence lawyer revealed he was unfit to proceed after leaving his sickbed.

The man accused of Northern Ireland’s worst single terrorist atrocity goes on trial in Belfast today.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are bracing themselves for a harrowing new ordeal as the man accused of the North’s worst single terrorist atrocity goes on trial in Belfast tomorrow.

The trial of the suspected master bomber accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing will start in September, it was announced today.

An electrician accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bomb massacre was refused bail today over fears he may flee south.

An electrician accused of murdering 29 people in the Omagh bomb atrocity tried to escape arrest by hiding in bushes, a court heard today.

RELATIVES of the Omagh bomb victims are seeking talks with the head of MI5.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims are seeking talks with the head of MI5.

Police in the North are questioning two men after a major counterfeiting operation was uncovered.

Police in the North have seized several million pounds worth of goods and lorries during a major search operation in south Armagh.

Relatives of the victims of the Omagh bombings today said they had received assurances from British Prime Minister Tony Blair that no one connected with the 1998 atrocity would be granted an amnesty, even if they are members of Sinn Féin or the IRA.

Relatives of the Omagh bomb victims will today ask Tony Blair to sanction a cross-border public inquiry into the Real IRA atrocity.