London - Colin Duffy, reportedly a prominent former member of the now inactive Irish Republican Army (IRA) was charged with the murder of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland three weeks ago.
The 41-year-old was also charged with five counts of attempted murder and illegal possession of firearms, police said. He is due in court on Friday.
London - Investigations into the recent murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland were thrown into disarray Wednesday when six men were freed from police custody after winning a legal challenge against their detention.
However Colin Duffy, one of the suspects and a former member of the now inactive Irish Republican Army (IRA) paramilitary group, was immediately re-arrested, his lawyers said.
London - A 17-year-old boy was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on a murder charge in the slaying of a police officer earlier this month in County Armagh, a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said.
The youth was charged late Monday in the killing of Constable Stephen Carroll. He faces additional charges of membership in the banned Continuity IRA, possession of a firearm with intent and collecting information likely to be of use to terrorists.
London - Northern Ireland bid a moving farewell to the police officer shot dead by suspected terrorists in a church service attended Friday by leading representatives of Sinn Fein, the party once closely linked to paramilitary terrorism in the province.
Police constable Stephen Carroll, a Catholic, was the first police officer to be murdered in Northern Ireland since 1998. His death also marked the first loss of an officer belonging to the new Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), formed in 2001.
London - A police officer was slain in a shooting near a school late Monday in North Ireland, two days after the fatal shooting of two British soldiers outside a barracks, authorities said.
There was no immediate indication of terrorism in Monday's shooting at a high school in Craigavon in County Armagh.
The slain officer, who was responding to a report of suspicious activity at the school, died after the shooting, police said.
London - The deadly attack on British soldiers in Northern Ireland comes as a severe setback - but not a death blow - to the fragile peace process in the province.
Although marking a shocking reminder of the "terrible past" of 30 years of civil strife - known as the Troubles - in the British province, the attack did not come out of the blue.
Northern Ireland's police chief, Hugh Orde, had warned tirelessly over the past 18 months that "dissident Republicans" who remained violently opposed to the peace process would strike at the security forces.
London - Colin Duffy, reportedly a prominent former member of the now inactive Irish Republican Army (IRA) was charged with the murder of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland three weeks ago.
London - Investigations into the recent murders of two soldiers and a police officer in Northern Ireland were thrown into disarray Wednesday when six men were freed from police custody after winning a legal challenge against their detention.
London - A 17-year-old boy was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on a murder charge in the slaying of a police officer earlier this month in County Armagh, a Police Service of Northern Ireland spokeswoman said.
London - Northern Ireland bid a moving farewell to the police officer shot dead by suspected terrorists in a church service attended Friday by leading representatives of Sinn Fein, the party once closely linked to paramilitary terrorism in the province.
London - A police officer was slain in a shooting near a school late Monday in North Ireland, two days after the fatal shooting of two British soldiers outside a barracks, authorities said.
London - The deadly attack on British soldiers in Northern Ireland comes as a severe setback - but not a death blow - to the fragile peace process in the province.
