Teenagers in Londonderry who anger loyalist paramilitaries are being told to attend vicious punishment beatings, police claim. Officers are stepping up patrols in the city after a new spate of ...

Loyalist paramilitaries mostly now involved in organised crime should not be pandered to by the Irish and British governments, the Alliance Party leader has said. Under an Alliance proposal ...

However, a gun used in the Cappagh attack was said to be part of a shipment of weapons imported by loyalist paramilitaries in the late 1980s with the involvement of army agent Brian Nelson.

Government plans to explore formal engagement with paramilitary groups could give them "legitimacy in our communities", ...

“Significant health warnings” may need to attach to an ombudsman’s finding of “collusive behaviours” by the RUC in a series ...