Pensioners in their eighties were forced to leave their homes in the middle of the night after a mortar-type device was left in a nearby graveyard in Northern Ireland.

Releasing a live album from concerts recorded in 2001 has given Paul Brady a sense of satisfaction, writes Ed Power.

The tragic story of the shooting of Eamon McDevitt by the British army in 1971, and its impact on the deaf community, is being told through sign language, writes Caomhán Keane

A man who got into difficulties following a dive off the coast of Co Galway yesterday became the sixth diver to perish off the Irish coast in the past month.

A father-of-three is the latest diver to lose his life after getting into difficulty off the coast of Donegal.

Flann O’Brien is the pseudonym Brian O’Nolan used as a novelist, but this collection also contains works written as Brian Ó Nualláin (for pieces in Irish), Brother Barnabas, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen, Lir O’Connor, and Brian O’Nolan.

Double-killer John Gallagher made the shape of a gun with his finger and “pulled the trigger” on his brother on two consecutive days, a court has heard.

A leather-clad Ryan Dolan gave it all in Sweden last night and was rewarded with a final place in Saturday’s night’s Eurovision.

Major retailers and suppliers are meeting the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) today to work out how to prevent food becoming contaminated and entering the supply chain.

The company which supplied halal food found to contain traces of pork DNA was named today.

A viable letter bomb has been posted to a senior police officer in the North, it was confirmed today.

Double killer John Gallagher has been released from the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

Double killer John Gallagher has handed himself in to the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

The Special Criminal Court has today ruled that statements made by a man admitting his part in the murder of a man in Co Donegal more than three years ago can be admitted in evidence.

CHRISTMAS shopping in New York may no longer be a popular pastime in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland except for one group of Lotto winners.

State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy has told a murder trial at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that Strabane man Andrew Burns died from a gunshot wound to his back which caused massive loss of blood.

A man from the North has pleaded not guilty at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin to the murder of another man at a church car park in Co Donegal in February, 2008.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of three men accused of INLA membership who were arrested during a garda investigation into a plot to kidnap a Cork businessman.

Police in the North have made another arrest today in connection with the murder of Brian McGlynn in Derry last year.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl who was struck by a car in front of a number of other children was one of four young people killed in road accidents over the weekend.

A man was arrested in the North today for questioning about the murder of a nightclub doorman nearly a year ago.

A LOYALIST ceasefire in the north is to be recognised, the Northern Ireland secretary said yesterday.

A loyalist ceasefire in the North is to be recognised, the Northern Secretary said today.

A man who was shot dead just yards from a church in Ireland three months ago was the first victim of the hard-line republican group Oglaigh na hEireann, it was revealed today.

Three men arrested in connection with a brutal murder of a man found shot dead in a church yard were released without charge tonight.

A man shot dead in church grounds on the border may have met his killer in a bar less than an hour before he was assassinated, it was revealed today.

The people who murdered Andrew Burns are "criminals hell bent on damaging society", Martin McGuinness said today.

Police on both sides of the border are today trying to identify a man shot dead in a gun attack.

Two children and an adult have been killed in an overnight road crash in Strabane, Co Tyrone.

Quarry equipment manufacturer CDE, based in Cookstown Co Tyrone, today announced a £5.4m (€7.6m) investment in an expansion which will create 40 new jobs.

A 40 year-old man is due in court in Omagh today charged with conspiracy to defraud.

A viable bomb was left outside the home of an independent member of a local policing body in the North, police said today.

Bullets were left at cemeteries in a new threat campaign against Sinn Féin representatives in the North, the party claimed today.

A man will appear at a special court sitting in Omagh later this morning, charged in connection with the robbery of a post office and the kidnapping of two women last year.

TWO of the killers of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe lost their bid to get early release under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement in the High Court yesterday.

Police arrested three men today for questioning about terrorist activity by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process in the North.

The black market tobacco trade in the North tonight suffered a setback after police came across hundreds of thousands of contraband cigarettes.

Police in the North are today questioning a teenager after a mob attack in Strabane, Co Tyrone.

A KILLER who murdered a pensioner just months after being freed for rape must stay in jail until he dies, a judge ruled yesterday.

A convicted rapist who abducted and murdered a pensioner on her way home from church will discover today if he is ever to be freed again.

Gardaí have released the name of the pensioner killed in a in a car crash in Newport, Co Mayo yesterday.

DNA tests are to be carried out on bone samples dug from a Northern Ireland grave in a bid to solve a 30-year identity mystery, it emerged today.

A farm labourer accused of murdering retired librarian Attracta Harron today denied having any involvement with her.

DONEGAL’S former flagship employer, Fruit of the Loom, is to end manufacturing in the county one year ahead of schedule.