Fears of a Christmas bombing blitz in Northern Ireland were heightened tonight after it was confirmed a blaze at a major DIY store was caused by an incendiary bomb.

A major DIY store in Northern Ireland was badly damaged by an overnight fire which police said today was possibly started deliberately.

A teachers' strike at a Northern Ireland school is piling new torment on the girl at the centre of a bitter assault row, a children’s watchdog warned tonight.

A 27-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Lisburn, Co Antrim.

Loyalist prisoners are being forced into humiliating strip searches at a high security Northern Ireland prison, it was claimed tonight.

The inquest into the death of IRA “disappeared” victim Jean McConville is to be held today more than 31 years after she was abducted.

Up to 35,000 prison officers across the UK are threatening to go on strike over terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland, it emerged tonight.

Ousted loyalist terror chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was warned today against trying to split his former paramilitary unit.

Prison authorities were today trying to end a rooftop protest by republican and loyalist inmates at a Northern Ireland jail.

A man shot dead by police in Northern Ireland had been at the centre of a drugs surveillance operation, it emerged tonight.

A woman murdered and dumped in a river had been in a relationship with a man she met in a psychiatric hospital, it was disclosed today.

A Northern Ireland woman whose husband is caught up in a legal dispute in the Middle East has told of her fears if a new hearing goes against him.

The Church of Ireland and the Methodist Church have signed an historic agreement to join the two churches together.

Police and troops in Northern Ireland were on full alert today after a failed bomb attack on a high security prison.