A gorse fire in the North which forced families to evacuate their homes overnight was started deliberately, a fire service there believes.

Latest: Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has welcomed the news from the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) today.

A prosecutorial decision on a man whose palm print was allegedly found on a getaway vehicle used in the Kingsmill massacre is set to be announced within two weeks, a coroner has been told.

A man arrested on suspicion of the sectarian murders of 10 Protestant workmen in Northern Ireland has been released pending a report to prosecutors.

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating the sectarian murder of 10 Protestant workmen in Northern Ireland 40 years ago.

A man has been arrested by detectives investigating the sectarian murder of ten Protestant workmen in the North 40 years ago.

A director of a credit union in Co Limerick, who claimed his Mercedes car was taken from him by a group of men when he went Christmas shopping to the North, yesterday pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to attempting to make a gain of €52,000 by deception from AXA Insurance Ltd.

Two suspected dissident republicans have appeared in court in Northern Ireland charged with terrorism offences.

A dissident republican plot to target judges and police officers in Northern Ireland has been exposed by a covert MI5 operation, a court has heard.

A man knocked down and killed in an accident involving a Garda patrol car was a Gaelic footballer.

Two nuns have been killed in a road accident in the North.

Two men arrested in connection with the murder of a former IRA supergrass have been released.

Forensic scientists have been asked to examine items found by specialist dogs in the North searching for the body of a murdered woman who went missing from there 25 years ago.

A high profile golf resort opened in the dying days of the Celtic Tiger has been bought by a low-key investor from the North two days after he heard about the sale.

The leader of a mysterious trust, which thousands of debtors believed would protect €2bn worth of assets, has been arrested after moving into one of the properties signed into his organisation.

The fugitive organiser of a mysterious property trust has set up shop north of the border after looking to assert control of assets linked to €2bn worth of distressed loans.

Armed PSNI men have seized four mortar bombs just minutes before dissident republicans planned to blitz Derry’s main police station.

A boy has died after becoming entangled in a blind cord yesterday evening.

A 23-year-old man who told gardaí he “lost the head” and hit his four-week-old baby daughter when she would not stop crying, was yesterday jailed for four years at Dundalk circuit criminal court.

Garda investigators have a major task on their hands to establish when and where Polish beef was fraudulently replaced with horsemeat.

Gardaí are investigating a case in which a 14-year-old girl miscarried after being allegedly given an “abortion potion” by her father.

Police investigating the murder of a teenager who went missing from her Portadown home 23 years ago are searching a house in the area.

A woman has died in hospital after a crash in Co Louth.

A MAN accused of murdering two Irishwomen at a holiday resort in Turkey in August has had his trial suspended for two months.

A PHARMACIST who bludgeoned a pensioner with a crucifix in a violent and drunken attack was jailed for life for murder in Belfast yesterday.

A TEENAGE girl whose boyfriend is the prime suspect in her mother’s murder has paid an emotional farewell at her funeral.

The Chief Celebrant at the funeral of Cathy Dinsmore, one of the two Co Down women murdered in Turkey last week, has said her family and friends' lives "have been turned upside down".

A teenager whose boyfriend is the prime suspect in her mother's murder said an emotional farewell at her funeral today.

The bodies of two Irish women murdered in Turkey are expected home today.

The prime suspect in the killing of two women in Turkey may be held in prison until the end of Ramadan.

Arrangements were being made today for the bodies of two best friends stabbed to death in Turkey to be brought home.

The former partner of a woman stabbed to death with her best friend in Turkey has arrived in the country to begin making arrangements to have their bodies brought home.

The former partner of a woman stabbed to death with her best friend in Turkey has left Ireland to travel to the country.

A woman and her best friend were stabbed to death on holiday in Turkey after she refused a waiter’s proposal to marry her 15-year-old daughter, sources said.

THE ex-partner of one of the two Irish women stabbed to death in Turkey has spoken of the concerns he had about the year-long relationship his 15-year-old daughter had with the alleged killer.

A woman and her best friend were stabbed to death on holiday in Turkey after she refused a waiter’s proposal to marry her 15-year-old daughter, sources said today.

A pipe bomb has exploded at a house in Newry, Co Down.

A man was arrested today in connection with a 500lb car bomb abandoned near a busy motorway in the North.

Tributes are being paid to human rights campaigner Kevin Boyle who has passed away.

Police in the North are appealing for information on an accident which has left a man critically ill.

More than 100 jobs will be created after a US technology company said it was establishing a European centre in the North.

BRIAN CONLON, the founder and chief executive of Newry firm First Derivatives plc, is the 13th Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.