The so-called New IRA which admitted killing journalist and activist Lyra McKee during a night of riots in Derry’s Creggan estate may have announced its formation in July 2012, but its origins stretch back five years earlier, writes Dieter Reinisch

THE neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

The neighbour of the alleged victim in a murder trial told the Central Criminal Court that she heard wailing coming from the woman’s house on the morning she died.

The victim in a murder trial told her killer she wanted him out of her life weeks before she died, and he threatened to take her to court for access to their unborn child, the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Westminster committee is recommending that loyalist and republican prisoners in the North should be housed together instead of in separate wings.