Sinn Féin has vehemently denied the IRA was involved in the Belfast murder last week of father-of-nine Kevin McGuigan.

World boxing champion Eamonn Magee’s career was ended after a neighbourhood row over a snowman erupted in violence, a court heard today.

A motor mechanic today denied carrying out the savage beating which has left world boxing champion Eamonn Magee’s career in ruins.