Tributes have been paid to 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee who was shot dead during riots in Derry last night.

Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

Sinn Féin has hinted that it may seek to ban unionist symbols from Stormont after a refusal to allow an event celebrating the life of IRA member Mairead Farrell.

The Northern Assembly’s governing body launched a fresh effort today to make a decision on whether to ban a controversial Stormont memorial for an IRA woman shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar.

Tony Blair today told Catholic and Protestant teenagers brought together by the sectarian murder of Michael McIlveen that they had set an example which should be followed by the North's politicians.