The decision to release loyalist killer Torrens Knight from prison is an affront to democracy which has sent shockwaves through society, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman said today.

A BOIL water notice was lifted from several parts of Co Cork after test results on water samples from the Innishannon Water Supply Scheme were clear.

TO get to Paradise, some Americans go to Intercourse first.

Investigators who cleared the RUC of having any advance knowledge of a loyalist paramilitary pub massacre were hampered by missing paperwork, a Northern Ireland Assemblyman who triggered the probe claimed today.

ALL alterations made onboard fishing vessels should be immediately notified to the marine authorities, according to a report on the sinking of a trawler off the coast of Wexford, which resulted in the death of a crewman.

FEARS were growing last night for the safety of two fishermen missing since their 15-metre fishing vessel, the Maggie B, went down five miles off the Hook Peninsula in county Wexford in rough seas just before midnight on Wednesday.

LOYALIST mass murderer and suspected police agent Torrens Knight was paid £50,000 (€73,186) a year after being released from jail, it was claimed yesterday.

A loyalist killer and suspected police agent was paid £50,000 (€73,193) a year after being released from jail, it was claimed today.

The body of missing fisherman Pat Colfer has not been found on the wreck of the Rising Sun, which was raised from the seabed off the coast of Co Wexford last night.

LOYALIST killer Torrens Knight was a double agent shielded by the Special Branch before he murdered eight people in the Greysteel massacre, SDLP Assembly member John Dallat claimed yesterday.

Marine Minster Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher tonight refused to order the Navy to raise a sunken fishing boat from the sea bed off Wexford in the search for the body of a missing fisherman.

GARDAÍ in Kilmore Quay in Wexford have taken possession of the diving gear which Billy O’Connor used when he embarked on a fatal search for the remains of missing skipper, Pat Colfer, 10 days ago.

WHEN the remains of missing diver Billy O’Connor were brought ashore on Saturday, the 150 people who had gathered on Kilmore Quay applauded. The hero had finally returned home.

A massive search for a rescue diver and a fishing boat captain believed to have gone down with his vessel off the coast of Wexford was suspended tonight.

A massive search for a diver who went missing while looking for the lost captain of a lobster boat off the coast of Wexford resumed today amid bad weather conditions.

The family of a missing fisherman whose boat suddenly capsized off the Wexford coast will have to wait until the weekend for navy dive teams to complete their search, it emerged today.

The Coastguard is this morning resuming its search for the skipper of a lobster boat that sank off the Wexford coast earlier this week.

Dive teams attempting to locate the skipper of a fishing boat which suddenly capsized off the Wexford coast tonight called off efforts to identify a sunken vessel.

A convicted loyalist murderer, released early under the Good Friday Agreement, was tonight facing the prospect of serving out eight life sentences for his involvement in a 1993 atrocity, after being convicted of taking part in a knife attack at a football match.

KIEREN FALLON, suffering from a sore neck, missed Cork yesterday and was replaced aboard Beauty Bright in the opening Coolmore Stud Choisir EBF Maiden by Ballydoyle apprentice, Sean Levey.

Stand-in Ireland coach Niall O’Donovan is not underestimating the power and pace of tomorrow’s Test opponents Japan.

Syd Millar, the Chairman of the International Rugby Board, has backed Japan’s bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2011.

The RUC have recorded 28 pipe bombings in the North so far this year, mostly in the Coleraine area of east Co Down.