Series of searches conducted as part of New IRA investigation

Detectives searched properties in Belfast, Dungannon, Newry, and Derry. 

Police carried out a raid on the Saoradh offices on Belfast's Antrim Road as part of an operation linked to the arrests of 9 people by security forces investigating the activities of the New IRA. File picture: Alan Lewis

A series of searches have been conducted in the North as part of a mounting cross-border investigation into the New IRA by the PSNI.

Nine people were being questioned by anti-terrorism officers as all four public offices of Saoradh, a political group linked to the New IRA, were searched on Thursday.