Top stories of the week

Campaigners have called on Dublin, yet again, to “step up” and come clean about the Republic’s role in the Troubles, after an Irish historian published a ‘ground breaking’ book on the subject.

Frequent flyers will know that there are certain things you can’t take on a plane, from liquids over 100ml to corrosive or hazardous substances.

Ken Wharton arrived in Belfast in 1971 as a soldier with the Royal Green Jackets, aged 21. Almost 50 years later he has now finished his 12th and final book about the Troubles.

Loyalist protester Jamie Bryson has urged the Parades Commission and PSNI to investigate anti-Brexit border protests which saw people dressed as in camouflage outfits with replica weapons and mock customs officers manning checkpoints.

A busy NI road heas been closed by police while they attend an incident in the area.

It’s “time justice was served” the sister of a Birmingham pub bomb victim has said following the inquest into the 21 IRA murders in 1974.

Motorists are asked to seek an alternative route after the discovery of a ‘suspected piece of ammunition this afternoon’.

Our focus on Brexit has been so intense that decisions which would otherwise be startling are passing by almost unnoticed.