Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, will resist extradition to Northern Ireland where he faces 18 charges of sexually abusing his daughter, his lawyers told a Dublin judge Wednesday.

Belfast Crown Court heard that Terence Gerard McGeough, 51, was shot in the chest by the intended victim Samuel John Brush as the part-time soldier and postman fought back when he was attacked by two men on June 13, 1981.

A leading victims campaigner attempted to serve a High Court writ on Martin McGuinness for his alleged part in IRA violence during a break from the heated justice debate at Stormont.

Martin McGuinness has accused the Ulster Unionists of opposing a deal to devolve policing powers to Northern Ireland for cynical party political reasons.

Ex-IRA member Gerry McGeough believes his trial for a 1981 murder is a political conspiracy, writes Suzanne Breen Gerry McGeough with his wife Maria and four children: 'I don't know why this is happening to us' Gerry McGeough after his arrest in 2007 Ex-IRA gun-runner and former Sinn Fein ard comhairle member, Gerry Mc Geough, goes on trial in ...

Police in Northern Ireland investigating the murder of a colleague shot a year ago by dissident republicans have appealed for help to catch the gang responsible.