A man has been sentenced to 90 years in prison for attacking an Irish student and her friend with a baseball bat in Chicago.

A video of student Natasha McShane will form the dramatic centrepiece of the trial of the man accused of beating her with a baseball bat as she walked home from a night out in Chicago.

ITV has admitted that a documentary about the IRA mistakenly used a scene from a video game and claimed it was a real IRA attack.

THEY come in the early morning before first light or at dead of night, armed with trucks and animal transporters.

A YOUNG Irish student left fighting for her life after being beaten in a brutal baseball bat attack is now in a serious condition in hospital.

Chicago police have charged a man and a woman over a baseball bat attack which left a Co Armagh student critically injured.

An Irish student remains critical but stable in a US hospital after being attacked with a baseball bat.

A YOUNG Irish woman is in a critical condition in a US hospital after she was subjected to a violent beating with a baseball bat during a robbery in the early hours of Friday.

A 23-year-old woman from South Armagh is in a critical condition in Chicago after she was beaten with an aluminium baseball bat in the US city yesterday.

A new form of petrol tampering by cheap fuel dealers on the border is on the increase, NI Customs officials revealed today.

The British Government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

The British government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the families and victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to the transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court as part of a civil case being brought against the five in the North.

Transcripts and books of evidence used in the trials of five men at the Special Criminal Court are "intensely relevant" to a civil action being brought against them in the North by victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Supreme Court heard today.

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal later this week against the High Court ruling that the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing are entitled to certain, but not all, of the documentation they had been seeking from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

Judgment has been reserved in a High Court action brought by the families of some victims of the 1998 Omagh bombing aimed at securing documents from five persons to be used in proceedings for damages against the five in the Northern Ireland courts.

The families of some of those killed in the Omagh bombing are seeking the discovery of documentation from five individuals who have appeared before the Special Criminal Court and are being sued for damages arising out of the 1998 explosion that killed 29 people, the High Court in Dublin heard today.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg today ruled that allegations of security force collusion in the loyalist murders of eight men in South Armagh in the 1970s had not properly been investigated.

For the first time people living in a border area of the North will be able to access urgent GP out-of-hours services in the Republic, it emerged today.

LAWYERS acting for dissident republican terror chief Michael McKevitt were yesterday told they can seek next month to overturn the North’s High Court refusal to grant him legal aid to defend the civil action being brought by relatives of Omagh bomb victims.

Lawyers acting for dissident republican terror chief Michael McKevitt were today told they can seek next month to overturn a Northern Ireland High Court refusal to grant him legal aid to defend the civil action being brought by relatives of Omagh bomb victims.

The PSNI are investigating a hit and run incident in South Armagh.

Gardaí have named the three victims of this morning’s two-car collision on the N2 outside Tullyvaragh, Co Monaghan.

Police were today continuing to question a man and woman about the Omagh bomb atrocity and a series of other attacks by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process in the North.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell told lawyers representing the families of the victims of the Omagh bombing that the Government was “willing” to let gardaí testify in a 14 million legal action they are taking against five men they alleged were involved in the outrage.

A man and woman held by police investigating the Omagh bomb atrocity were also being questioned tonight about a series of other attacks by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process in Northern Ireland.

USED to be that when a club would win the All-Ireland title, the town and village would go on the beer for a year, and the next thing we would hear was the defending All-Ireland champions were knocked out by a team from a small parish of 300 houses and a 15-year old as a corner forward in the first round of the championship.

Relatives of victims of the Omagh bombing are suing five men with alleged links to the Real IRA.