Republican group Lasair Dhearg claimed responsibility for the incident in a social media post.

The boy’s body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020 that could ‘could be easily opened’, the inquest heard.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Metropolitan Police have also made concessions.

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when his body was found in a storm drain tunnel in north Belfast in June 2020.

James Sefton, 65, and his wife, Ellen, 66, were killed when a booby trap device exploded under their car in Belfast.

Medical treatment was provided to three other people with non-life threatening injuries.

The inquest at Belfast coroner’s court into the death of the schoolboy, which is being heard with a jury, is now in its fifth week.

Recent recruitment figures showed that the percentage of Catholic applicants to join the PSNI was at its lowest in more than a decade.

Conor Quinn, 31 from Derryloughan, John Guy, 48, originally from Dublin, and Laura Hoy, 23, from Cookstown died in the crash on Saturday.

A man who died following an incident in Belfast last week has been named as Ahmed Abdi, 33.

The inquest into the death of the schoolboy at Belfast Coroner’s Court, which is being heard with a jury, is now in its fourth week.

The 32-year-old has since been released on bail pending further investigations.

A former police inspector has told an inquest he crawled through an underground storm drain tunnel system as part of efforts to find the teenager.

Police said a small fire was started in one of the derelict buildings on the site of the former Cabin Hill buildings.

The inquest at Belfast Coroner’s Court, which is being heard with a jury, is now into its fourth week.

Claudia Jaczyk, 23, from the Newtownabbey area, was driving the car involved in the incident on the Ballyrobin Road, Templepatrick.

The driver of the bus has serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

A neighbour contacted the emergency services after spotting the fire.

Isaac Koko, 32, with an address at Cromwell Road in the south of the city, appeared before Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Saturday charged with the murder.

No one was in the home at the time of the incident.

A 32-year-old man has been charged with murder following the death of a 33-year-old man on Wednesday.

The PSNI say officers responded to reports of a “concern for safety” at an address in the Cromwell Road area on Wednesday.

The PSNI say they have received around 100 reports of romance scams since last April

The coroner found there was a delay in assessing 50-year-old Stephen Loughead at the Mater Hospital in Belfast.

They have since been released on bail as police continue their investigation.

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

Noah, a pupil of St Malachy’s College, was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020

A man has been arrested after the incident in Ahoghill.

Police said the incident on Saturday was a ‘clear attempt to destroy someone’s home’.

Detectives have appealed for information about the incident in the city centre.

In that time there were 662 shoplifting offences, representing an increase of 1.7 per cent compared with the same period last year.

The man has been named as Gerard Rafferty, 71, who was from the Coalisland area.

A man aged in his late 30s was shot once in each leg in injuries described as ‘severe’ by police.

The inquest also heard from one of Noah’s classmates, who said he had had no concerns about the mental health of his school friend in 2020.

Noah was 14 when he was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020.

Jay Tierney described Noah as ‘eccentric, but not in a bad way’ and described how the pair supported each other during the Covid lockdown.

Two former PSNI chief constables gave evidences to MPs on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

The headmaster of the Royal School Armagh, Graham Montgomery, said the school will “take all appropriate action as advised”.

Wayne Reid, 43, was found dead at an address in Coleraine last week.

Wayne Reid, 43, was found dead at an address in the town.

The devices were found in the Upper Hightown Road of Newtownabbey.

Officers made the discovery during a planned search of a property in the Waterside area of Derry.

The PSNI say two masked men smashed windows and doused a car and the house in accelerant before setting them on fire.