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The organisation which represents rank and file police has noted that officers were so committed during the Greenvale Hotel tragedy that they actually drove an ambulance to assist paramedics.

The fourth member of the group being pursued for damages by the Omagh bomb victims has been declared bankrupt.

The breakdown of the first count has been revealed for Northern Ireland’s European Election.

Teenager Connor Currie was ‘a gem’ who said ‘thank you’ every time he left both the kitchen table and the classroom, mourners at his funeral have heard.

At her funeral mass this morning, tragic 17-year-old Lauren Bullock was described as a passionate cheerleader who kept those around her “in craic, friendship and fun”.

At his funeral mass this morning, Archbishop Eamon Martin likened the sudden and tragic death of 17-year-old Morgan Barnard on St Patrick’s Day to the snatching away of the teenage saint himself from his family to be taken to Ireland.

St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon has said it is experiencing “a time of profound sadness” as the school community comes to terms with “the tragic loss of our much loved and popular pupils Morgan Barnard and Connor Currie”.

The PSNI have assured those who attended the tragic St Patrick’s Day event in Cookstown that they are only interested in what caused the deaths of three teenagers - not in the fact that underage children were queuing for a licensed premises.

Three teenagers have died after a ‘crush’ at St Patrick’s Day party at a hotel in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, police have said.

A young Catholic mother cried “why us?” as the UDA/UFF snatched her baby from her arms and gunned her down with automatic weapons in her Newtownabbey living room, her son told a stunned audience at Stormont yesterday.

Sinn Fein has held an advice clinic in a caravan after permission was withdrawn from using a Catholic church building in light of pro-life objections.

Former Sinn Fein TD Peadar Tóibín is to name his new all-Ireland political party Aontú, which means ‘unity’ in Irish.

A pro-life group with republican links is ‘looking forward to tackling’ Sinn Fein this weekend, claiming the party has ‘run for cover’ during all previous confrontations.

A new pro-life republican party hopes to have a total of seven Sinn Fein or SDLP councillors defecting to it in time for the local government elections in May.

Ireland’s victory over the All Blacks on Saturday was a result former Irish captain Willie Anderson would have loved to have secured after his legendary confrontation with the team’s Haka in 1989.

A Dublin Catholic who served in the Army in Northern Ireland says he has uncovered a slew of ‘harrowing’ stories of the reality of terrorism as he works on a new documentary.

Security at major PSNI stations is to be reduced to “reckless” levels from next month with the number of front gate security guards dropping to only one at any given time, it is claimed.

A surgeon who helped treat survivors of the 1988 Ballygawley bus bombing says that republicans threatened his family in the aftermath of his work.

The Omagh bomb families have finally begun the formal process of extracting £1.6m in damages from four convicted terrorists who have been found liable for the atrocity.