Journalist Lyra McKee tweeted about the "absolute madness" in Derry in the hours before she was shot dead yesterday evening.

An open letter to the Ireland and Ulster rugby leadership demanding that Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding never play rugby for the province or national team again has appeared in a Northern Ireland newspaper.

Police are working to establish who was behind a series of anti-Islamic leaflets posted through letterboxes in parts of Belfast.

Paddy Jackson’s solicitor yesterday stated the rugby player’s priority in the wake of his acquittal on rape charges was to return to work but the Ireland fly-half will not make an immediate comeback on the field of play.

A rape trial of two Ireland and Ulster rugby players has been delayed because of a sick juror.

Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding’s rape trial will begin hearing evidence in their defence today.

Latest:The complainant was further asked how she felt about Jackson.

Ireland captain Rory Best has declined the opportunity to explain his decision to attend the rape trial of his Ulster and international team-mates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding.

Irish rugby boss Joe Schmidt has said the presence of captain Rory Best and fellow international Ian Henderson at the rape trial of their team-mates Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding will not affect preparations for tomorrow’s Six Nations opener against France.

A start date for the rape trial of two Ireland and Ulster rugby stars has been moved.

Two Ireland and Ulster rugby stars are due to go on trial accused of rape.

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead in Finaghy on the outskirts of Belfast.

Sections of recent Dáil debates and international statements made by the Taoiseach threw up some interesting statistics.

Ulster and Ireland players Paddy Jackson, 25, and Stuart Olding, 24, strenuously deny the offence, which was alleged to have happened in Belfast last June.

A quantity of class A drugs with a street value of over €17,000 was seized.

A security alert is underway in south Belfast, following the discovery of a "suspect vehicle".

The 16-year-old girl and three of the men, all aged in their twenties, died in separate incidents on Monday.

No-one will be able to match Martin McGuinness as deputy First Minister Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has said.

The US government has urged a quick resumption of powersharing in Northern Ireland.

A former Celtic Football Club youth coach and kitman charged with a child sex offence has been remanded in prison in the North for his own safety.

Police in the North are investigating an arson attack on a Presbyterian church and neighbouring hall in south Belfast.

Update:The wheelchair-bound veteran loyalist Winston "Winkie" Rea has been released on bail after appearing in court charged with two Troubles murders.

A veteran loyalist has been charged with two murders allegedly committed during The Troubles.

A new talks process is about to begin at Stormont to determine the shape of the new power-sharing government.

Negotiations on the shape of the North's new power-sharing government are expected to begin tomorrow.

One constituency remained undeclared as the Northern Ireland Assembly reached its conclusion.

Communities across the North must stand together to reject the dark deeds of the dark men who murdered a prison officer, mourners at his funeral were told.

The funeral for a prison officer murdered by dissident republicans in the North will take place in Belfast today.

A prison officer who died after he was injured in a bomb attack in Belfast may have had a heart attack, his colleagues said.

A group calling itself the New IRA has claimed responsibility for a Semtex bomb attack that injured a prison officer in Belfast, according to reports.

A bomb attack on a prison officer in Northern Ireland may be the first of a number of dissident republican murder bids launched to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising, police have warned.

Two men are to appear before Belfast Magistrates Court later, charged in connection with the murder of Stephen Carson.

Police have re-opened investigations into two sectarian murders in Belfast during the 1980s and 1990s.

A man will appear in court in the North today charged with murdering a senior Loyalist with a samurai sword.

A man has had part of his ear bitten off during an assault in south Belfast.

A security alert in South Belfast has ended.

Police in the North have launched a murder investigation after a man’s body was found in a car boot.

Police in the North are appealing for witnesses to a hijacking in the early hours of this morning.

Ulster Bank have announced 350 new jobs at their Direct Customer Contact Centre in south Belfast.

Drug mule Michaela McCollum could serve a shorter jail sentence if repatriated to Northern Ireland, it has been revealed.

A Catholic religious order has accepted notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth abused children while they were in the care of nuns in the North, a lawyer told a public inquiry yesterday.

Police in the North are investigating two aggravated burglaries in Belfast and Ballymena.