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A WEST Belfast woman has claimed she was approached by MI5 officers dressed in PSNI uniform.

POLICE have carried out searches at the offices of a republican prisoners' group.

LEGAL proceedings are to be launched against An Garda Siochana, after a sophisticated tracking device was discovered under the car of a member of Republican Network for Unity in Carlow.

A hardline republican party which previously indicated a possible end to Óglaigh na hÉireann's paramilitary campaign has said it is stepping up its “process of modernisation”.

The republican paramilitary group known as Óglaigh na hÉireann has said it “will not contemplate “disbandment or disarming” as part of any process that may lead to the ending of its armed campaign.

IT IS to be hoped that a statement delivered by a spokesman for a dissident-linked group in Belfast during an Easter commemoration event will lead to a move away from violence by one of the organisations up until now engaged in attacks on police and members of the public.

A LAY magistrate questioned by the PSNI over a suspected republican tiger kidnapping has asked the Police Ombudsman to re-examine her case.

A MAN has been arrested in connection with the violent robbery of a pensioner who was held at knifepoint in his north Belfast home.

LAWYERS for jailed Derry republican Tony Taylor say they have launched legal action amid claims he was denied medication in jail earlier this month.

THE wife of jailed republican Tony Taylor has backed an ‘anti-internment’ parade planned for Belfast.