Three men were arrested today by police hunting the killers of a drug dealer hacked to death by a gang in the North last summer.

Police in the North have arrested two men in connection with Tuesday night's horrific murder on a loyalist estate in Co Down.

Police in the North have launched a murder inquiry following the discovery of a man's body on a road in Bangor, Co Down.

The National Safety Council tonight called for high visibility gardai, speed cameras at accident black spots and more checkpoints after a series of accidents from midnight on Friday left seven people dead.

The British government was tonight accused of having an inconsistent approach to terrorism as it prepared to introduce legislation allowing some of Northern Ireland’s most infamous on-the-run terror suspects to return home.

Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland will not be given a free licence to police their neighbourhoods through community restorative justice schemes, Peter Hain said today.

Gardaí were questioning a lorry driver tonight in connection with the death of a married couple in a road crash.

Mary McAleese will decide this summer whether to seek re-election as the President of Ireland, she confirmed tonight.