A policewoman who shot her former PSNI lover used a gun the force returned to her after she handed it in over concerns about her mental stability, a court heard today.

REMARKS by Senator Mary O’Rourke that her campaign team “worked like blacks” (Irish Examiner, January 9) reveal how entrenched racist attitudes are in Fianna Fáil and the wider republican tradition to which it is aligned.

AN elderly woman confined to a wheelchair yesterday became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

A top Belfast loyalist was charged tonight with murdering rogue paramilitary Alan McCullough.

A 20-year-old man has been injured in a violent attack in the North.

Two men have been taken to hospital with leg wounds after a paramilitary-style shooting at Newtonabbey in Co Antrim.

A man has been arrested after a suspicious fire in Co Down in which a woman in her thirties died.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that it has asked an historical group in Drogheda to explain how a £20,000 grant was spent.

A man and a woman are to appear in Belfast Magistrates Court later this morning on explosives and weapons charges.