Niall Kearney, the 26-year-old European Challenge Tour player from Royal Dublin, achieved an ambition he has chased since turning professional in 2009 when he birdied the 18th hole at Adare Manor yesterday to capture the 104th Irish Professional Championship.

Annabel Wilson, who helped Ireland to a highly-creditable second-place finish in the Home internationals last week, produced a stunning closing burst over the Massereene course in county Antrim yesterday to spearhead the Irish charge towards places in the knock-out stages of the British Girls Open Championship.

Old Bailey bomber Marian McGlinchey has avoided a return to jail after being handed a suspended sentence for dissident republican terror offences, one linked to the murder of two British soldiers.

An IRA sniper convicted of killing the last British soldier to die before the Good Friday peace agreement has been found dead.

A verdict is due today in the trial of a man accused of murdering two British soldiers in the North.

A man will go on trial today for the murders of two British soldiers in the North.

Prosecutors in the North have applied to the Court of Appeal in Belfast to retry a man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed.

A man found guilty of murdering two British soldiers in the North has had his convictions quashed.

Rioters are the enemies of democracy, the North’s First Minister said today.

The murderers of prison officer David Black are “swimming in a sea of criminality and drugs” and “dressing it up” with a flag of political convenience, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last night strongly condemned the murder of prison officer David Black, as it emerged that a third man had been arrested in connection with his death.

For more than three years, Shane Lowry has looked back on his famous victory in the Irish Open at Baltray with a variety of emotions.

Police in the North have arrested six people after a masked man at a republican commemoration threatened further violence by dissidents opposed to the peace process.

A terminally ill dissident republican jailed for murdering two soldiers in the North has today launched a legal bid to overturn his conviction.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

A terminally-ill man must serve a minimum of 25 years in jail for the murders of two soldiers shot dead by dissident republicans in the North, a judge ruled today.

A terminally ill dissident republican convicted of murdering two British soldiers will today find out the length of his jail term.

A man cleared of murdering two soldiers in the North has claimed his DNA was planted on a latex glove in the getaway car.

A HIGH-PROFILE republican has walked free from a court in the North after being cleared of murdering two British soldiers.

Evidence from soil samples which allegedly links the man accused to the murder of two soldiers will not be admitted to court, a judge ruled this afternoon.

Forensic evidence against two men accused of murdering two British soldiers in the North is reliable and proven, a barrister for the prosecution said.

A bomb squad officer who was first to examine the car used by gunmen who killed two soldiers in the North said he did not see a latex glove tip said to be at the heart of the case.

Bullets fired in a terrorist gun attack that killed two British soldiers were of a make and date similar to those used in Provisional IRA shootings, a court has heard today.

Police in the North are combing the scene of an explosion that killed a Catholic officer to find out how the dissident republican bomb was made.

A fresh legal submission by lawyers acting for a prominent republican accused of murdering two British soldiers in Northern Ireland today forced a judge to postpone a decision on whether he should stand trial.

A soldier injured in a dissident republican shooting in the North which killed two colleagues has been discharged from the army on medical grounds.

A Catholic policeman who survived a dissident republican bomb attack has regained consciousness and is showing signs of improvement, the PSNI confirmed today.

A police officer was seriously injured when a bomb exploded under his car in the North today.

Security forces have foiled a bid to kill police officers in the North, it was revealed today.

Old Bailey bomber Marian Price was today released by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in the North.

Old Bailey bomber Marian Price was arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of two soldiers outside a military barracks in the North.

Police in the North have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with the murders of two British soldiers in Co Antrim earlier this year.

President Mary McAleese today praised the transformation of policing which had allowed the North to take a giant step towards a completely new era in community policing.

PSNI detectives investigating the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll by dissident republicans are being granted extra time to hold a 22-year-old suspect in custody.

Three players sharing the lead after the opening round of the Irish Boys Amateur Close Championship at Bangor Golf Club today.

A 44-year-old man accused of murdering two British soldiers outside an Army barracks in the North left his DNA on matchsticks found in a partially burnt out getaway car, a court heard today.

Trade unionists in the North said today that they will hold a public rally tomorrow against sectarianism.

A 100lb roadside bomb was found in countryside in co Fermanagh, it was revealed today.

The PSNI are threatening a journalist in the North with legal action if she doesn’t reveal Real IRA information sources.

Police in the North have released a teenager arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of two British soldiers in Co Antrim last month.

Some unionist criticisms of the proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland are factually incorrect, the Human Rights Commission claimed today.

The widow of the Catholic policeman murdered by dissident republican gunmen has made an emotional plea for his death to be the last in the North's conflict.

The bodies of two British soldiers murdered by the Real IRA outside an Army barracks in the North will be returned to their families.