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NEW 'Error' returned paedophile brothers to Donagh

Two serial paedophile brothers - ruled mentally unfit to stand trial - were returned to the Co Fermanagh village the sex offences occurred in due to an "administrative error", the Stormont Justice Committee has heard.

Fr Eugene Lewis, convicted of sexually abusing three Fermanagh sisters, is to be sentenced

Sex priest jailed for abusing sisters Video Available

Dublin based priest Father Eugene Lewis, unanimously convicted of sexually abusing three sisters in their Co Fermanagh home going back almost 50 years, has been jailed for a total of four years in a Belfast Court.

A suspicious object was spotted by a pedestrian on the lower deck of the bridge close to the John Street side shortly after 1pm on Thursday

LATEST Derry bridge alert causes chaos

Army bomb experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object whose discovery led to the closure of both decks of Craigavon Bridge in Londonderry.

Damien Walsh (centre) was killed by a UFF gunman in March 1993.

Soldiers witnessed teen murder

A mother has spoken of her shock after an HET report revealed that an Army undercover unit watched as her teenage son was shot dead in west Belfast, 17 years ago.

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