Police arrested nine men and two women as loyalists staged more protests over the decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall.

Up to 40 men have been forced out of a city by a republican vigilante group who shot dead a dad-of-two, it has been claimed.

Killers who shot dead a man in Donegal are imposing the law of the jungle, a priest who knew the victim has said.

HE lights dim and the audience is hushed. Former middleweight contender Bobby Cassidy is led to the front of the stage.

The Real IRA has been blamed for attacks on the homes of two police personnel in Co Derry.

Police in the North are dealing with an on-going security operation in Derry this morning.

Two men have been released on bail after they were charged with public order offences arising out of an Apprentice Boys parade in Derry on Saturday.

VOTERS in the North go to the polls today in an election that will likely see the DUP’s Peter Robinson remain First Minister.

A teenager who drowned in a river in the North after fleeing police was “disaffected” with his life, a community worker claimed today.

Families members of two of the five young people who died in one of the worst car accidents in the history of the State have today settled their High Court action for more than €400,000.

Police in the North have arrested five men in connection with the murder of a 22-year-old man in Derry almost a year ago.

Two men were being questioned today over a group attack on a 13-year-old boy that left him needing hospital treatment.

IN preparing a timeline for the publication of 1978 State papers, I looked at the front page of the daily newspaper for every day of the year.

HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from Waterford courthouse and surrounding buildings yesterday after a “viable, explosive device” was found in a car outside the fire station, a mere 10 metres from the court building.

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

A gang of men and women who attacked and stabbed a woman in Derry was tonight being hunted by police.

A man was immersed in bath water and had petrol poured over him during a terrifying armed robbery in Co Tyrone, it emerged today.

PSNI officers came under attack in Derry last night while trying to break up sectarian clashes between rival gangs of youths in the Waterside area of the city.

A former city mayor in the North has been forced from his home after a series of attacks by dissident republicans.

Three men and a juvenile were arrested today by detectives investigating an attack in the North in which a civil servant was critically injured.

A Polish family is moving out of their home in the Waterside in Derry after they were targeted in a racist attack at the weekend.

Two men are being questioned by police today in relation to the vicious beating of a 15-year-old boy in the North which left him fighting for his life.

Two men are being treated in hospital in the North after trouble broke out in Derry in the early hours of this morning.

Fourteen people were arrested toay by police investigating organised crime.

Police today called an end to their suspicions over the discovery of a dead man at a house in Northern Ireland.

A third man was tonight charged in connection with the £26.5m (€39.23m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast last Christmas.

Another man was arrested for questioning today about the £26.5m (€39m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast.

Protestants living in Derry feel increasingly alienated and fearful about the future, research claimed today.

Firefighters pulled an unconscious man from a burning house in Derry overnight.

Two people were injured in a pellet-gun shooting in Derry bar last night.

A number of residents have been evacuated from their homes in the Waterside area of Derry following the discovery of a suspicious device this morning.

Three children were knocked down and injured while on their way to school in Derry today.

Five people were today being questioned by police about the death of a man in an attack in Derry.

Police investigating a suspected money-laundering operation carried out a series of raids in Derry today.

POLICE in the North have confirmed raids carried out in Derry are connected to the ongoing Cork money laundering probe.

POSTAL address snobbery is alive and well in 21st century Ireland, with council officials and builders literally crossing Swords over the issue.

The PSNI is investigating the latest in a string of suspected arson attacks on business premises throughout the North.

A murder investigation is underway in the North after a man sustained a fatal head injury during a disturbance outside a pub in Derry last night.

A man was arrested today for questioning about the murder of Darren Thompson in Derry in September.

A 'plot' to ignite a new shooting war between Northern Ireland’s two main loyalist paramilitary organisations has been halted, they declared tonight.

A second woman being questioned about the murder of a man in Derry on Friday has tonight been released without charge.

Politicians and community leaders are setting up a group to liaise with police in the Waterside area of Derry after the attempted murder of a young man this week.

The loyalist Ulster Defence Association has been blamed for the attempted murder of a 22-year-old man in the Waterside area of Derry yesterday morning.

Gardaí in Co Monaghan have named the man who died in a freak truck accident in Clontibret yesterday as 61-year-old James McCorkall, from the Waterside area of Derry.