Politicians in the North have revealed tonight they had agreed a new blueprint for fighting sectarianism.

Two men arrested in the North as part of an investigation into suspected multi-million pound money laundering fraud were still being questioned by the PSNI today.

THE man who led the NFL Pittsburgh Steelers football team to an historic sixth Superbowl title has been named US ambassador to Ireland.

There was jobs joy for the North today as US sandwich chain Subway said it planned to generate up to 400 jobs across the North over the next two years.

Two people were arrested following clashes in the centre of Belfast after a day of St Patrick’s Day celebrations.

LANSDOWNE Road seemed just a distant memory for fans as they travelled to the home of GAA on Dublin’s northside.

Buyers can save up to €20,000 by buying cars in the North or Britain, writes Paul Kelly

CHRISTIAN brothers College, Cork and Newbridge College, Co Kildare will contest the final of the 2005 Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz on April 29 at UCC.

Police in the North tonight warned business owners in Newry, Co Down, to return and check their premises following the discovery of a firebomb.

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

A MISSING woman found dead at a flat in Belfast may have been repeatedly stabbed and beaten, it emerged yesterday.

A missing woman found dead at a flat in Belfast may have been repeatedly stabbed and beaten, it emerged today.

A Co Louth man has been jailed for three years for his role in a £151,000 insurance fraud conspiracy arising out of what was described as "a dramatic accident that never happened" in 1996.

Brian Kerr is preparing to take on the mantle of Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland in the morning.

Four men from Northern Ireland were arrested in tonight when gardaí seized around two million smuggled cigarettes.

Two armed raiders have stolen an undisclosed sum of money from a security van in Newry, Co Down.

A two-man team of climbers from Northern Ireland reached the summit of Mount Everest early today

Police in Northern Ireland were today continuing to question two men in connection with a seized bomb suspected to have been made by republican dissidents.

Bomb disposal experts are examining a suspect car parked in the grounds of a hotel in Newry, Co Down.

Police in Northern Ireland were tonight given yet more time to question two Lithuanians about the murder of two men found bludgeoned to death in deep undergrowth beside a golf course.

Restrictions on the movement of livestock in Northern Ireland introduced in the wake of the foot-and-mouth crisis were being eased today.

Troops were back on the streets of another Northern Ireland town tonight as security chiefs fought to combat the growing campaign of loyalist sectarian bomb attacks on Catholic homes.

Security operations are continuing in Armagh after five men were arrested last night and two hand guns found.