Nine men are being questioned tonight after a massive police search for weapons and explosives linked to dissident republicans in the North.

A man will appear before magistrates tomorrow on a charge connected to one of the biggest seizures of black market cigarettes in the North.

Police recovered 15 million contraband cigarettes in north Armagh following a probe into dissident republican crime, it was revealed today.

NORMAL security arrangements are expected to apply in Dublin for Sunday’s Tyrone/Armagh Bank of Ireland Ulster football final, which is likely to produce an 80,000-plus attendance.

The Ulster Defence Association today denied any involvement in a bomb attack on a Catholic family’s home in Northern Ireland.

There are fears neo-Nazis are becoming involved in a row over whether a mosque should be built in the Craigavon area of north Armagh.