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

SDLP Leader Mark Durkan sprang to the defence of President Mary McAleese today after she compared the Nazis’ hatred of Jews to those who taught children in Northern Ireland to despise Catholics.

Crude graffiti has been daubed on walls as part of a new offensive by loyalists to drive Catholics out of a troubled south Belfast area, it emerged today.