Those who favor televising U.S. Supreme Court proceedings - the New Era among them - were not heartened by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's recent comments on the subject.

At a Colorado judicial conference, Ginsburg was highly critical of televised confirmation hearings for high court justices. TV affords members of the Senate Judiciary Committee "all that free time" to perform in front of the cameras, she said....

OMAGH bomber Colm Murphy is in the frame for one of the bloodiest atrocities of the Troubles, the Daily Mirror can reveal.

And the PSNI's cold-case cops are under pressure to investigate the 57-year-old republican veteran after claims he was linked to the IRA slaughter of 10 men at Kingsmill in 1976.

The families of those murdered in the South Armagh attack said they will not accept a report due to be released by the Historical Enquiries Team in the coming months unless they interview Murphy first. ...

GERRY Adams hit back yesterday at "anti-republican elements" watches s pursuing him over the death of Disappeared mum Jean McConville.

The Sinn Fein leader said critics were trying to stop the development of his party.

He also told an Easter Commemoration rally in Milltown Cemetery in West Belfast that people should be careful about naming those involved in the conflict. ...

GERRY Adams attacked the police service at the funeral of a former republican prisoner yesterday.

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Frank McGreevy, 51, died on Tuesday after being attacked at his west Belfast flat last Saturday.

The Sinn Fein president told 2,000 mourners: "None of us here should be surprised by the failure of the PSNI to respond properly to criminality in our community....

British PM visits Northern Ireland for policing, justice talks

LONDON, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is heading to Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland on Monday afternoon for further talks on policing and justice, Britain's Sky News reported.

Brown met his Irish counterpart Brian Cowen at the Downing street No. 10 on Monday to discuss a way out of the deadlock between Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) over devolving policing and justice powers from Westminster to Belfast. ...