Down County, Northern Ireland News

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - BELFAST, Northern Ireland a ' Two suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have been charged with attempting to kill an off-duty police officer near the province's border with the Republic of Ireland last week, police said Tuesday.

Two men have been charged tonight with attempting to murder a police officer in Northern Ireland following an incident at the weekend.

Hordes surged across the border into Northern Ireland as they used the Republic's national strike to stock up on Christmas shopping.

THESE dramatic CCTV images show armed robbers who burst into a shop and stole over A 600 after holding a terrified 21-year-old woman at knifepoint.

UNIONISTS have their hand on the Stormont steering wheel, DUP leader Peter Robinson told his party's conference on Saturday.

Five people have been arrested after police exchanged fire with suspected dissident republicans in Co Fermanagh.

A WOMAN convicted of bombing the Old Bailey in an IRA attack has been arrested in connection with the murder of Wood Green soldier Patrick Azimkar.

Detectives are investigating a report of a sexual assault in Banbridge. Sunday, 22 November 2009 Tags: police Local News In the early hours of Sunday morning an 18-year-old woman was reportedly attacked in the town centre at Rathfriland Road, police said.

Forensic officers are seen outside the police-reform headquarters, near the site where a 400-pound car bomb was found, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday, Nov.

Older people are being urged not to panic after five pensioners were targeted in robberies over the weekend.

The Almac Group has completed a 67,000-sq.-ft. expansion to its facility in Durham, NC, which now houses the company's Clinical Services and Diagnostics Divisions.

FAMILY members of the victims of a fatal car crash in Newry earlier this year have travelled from Portugal to campaign for safety improvements at the notorious stretch of road where the horror smash occurred.

An 18-year-old man has been jailed for six months for breaking a 49-year-old woman's arm with an iron bar during a racist attack.

"It could yet go wrong. Get in and say to the politicians to get in and finish it off." The words of a worried Shaun Woodward appealing last week to civic and church leaders to basically ask Peter Robinson to remove what the British and Irish governments see as DUP roadblocks on the way to completing the process of devolution.

The 55-year-old was detained by officers in West Belfast, according to republican sources.

Canadian airframer Bombardier today started construction of a site in Belfast, Northern Ireland that will house wing production for its new CSeries aircraft.

Marion Price, who was jailed for 1973 court bombing, arrested in Belfast over shootings outside army barracks Patrick Azimkar, left, and Mark Quinsey, the two soldiers killed in an attack at Massereene barracks, in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

A suspected rapist who went on the run for 12 years has appeared at the Old Bailey in London after being arrested in Northern Ireland.

Ceremonial uniforms belonging to the father of modern-day unionism Sir Edward Carson have been sold at auction for 43,000. National Museums Northern Ireland bought the robes worn by the famous unionist politician who led the anti-Home Rule campaign which eventually resulted in the partition of Ireland in 1921.

A new Irish republican dissident terror group is using a gang of young travellers to steal weapons from gun owners across Northern Ireland .