Real IRA boss Michael McKevitt has failed in a court bid to declare his conviction for directing terrorism a miscarriage of justice.

Monday’s Boston Marathon bomb blasts have revived painful memories of the 1998 Omagh bomb in Co. Tyrone, a Stormont Assembly member said.

The flute band named after Real IRA leader Alan Ryan, who was shot dead in Dublin last September, led an Easter republican commemoration in Derry on Monday.

The two Real IRA factions in Dublin and Derry are believed to possess the greatest capability to launch an attack on Britain, the Irish Post reports.

Ireland soccer star Anthony Stokes has been accused of shaming Glasgow Celtic football club after publicly supporting a Real IRA event.

Celtic and Irish international striker Anthony Stokes was sent a death threat on Twitter, after the soccer player attended a tribute for a murdered IRA boss.

A suspect has been taken into questioning in connection with the shots that were fired during the funeral procession for the Real IRA’s gang leader Alan Ryan in September.

The Irish Independent reports that the suspect is being questioned at Raheny Garda Station under section 30 of the Offences against the State Act 1939, which allows detentions in relation to gun offences and terrorism.

Police in Dublin completed a search and arrest operation as part of their ongoing investigation into the gangland killing of Real IRA boss Alan Ryan on Thursday.

Vincent Ryan, the 22-year-old brother of the murdered Real IRA member Alan Ryan, has been charged by Irish police in connection with the death of Michael Kelly, 35, in 2011.

Irish police believe that so-called Real IRA members are arming themselves for revenge on Alan Ryan's enemies.

The brother of murdered dissident Republican Alan Ryan has been charged with membership of the IRA.

Three men appeared in court in Dublin on Saturday charged with membership of a dissident Republican movement.

Irish police say they are confident they will arrest the dissident republicans responsible for firing shots at the funeral of Real IRA terror boss Alan Ryan over the weekend.

Ireland’s Justice Minister Alan Shatter has slammed a Real IRA paramilitary display at the Dublin funeral of one of its alleged leaders.

The Real IRA has taken to the streets of Dublin and vowed to avenge the death of its leader Alan Ryan.

Alan Ryan, the swaggering tough guy shot dead by a masked gunman in Dublin on Monday, was an accomplished womanizer with a long line of female conquests who fell for his good looks.

A Dublin crime lord has bragged that his fellow gang members "whacked" Real IRA terror boss Alan Ryan.

The leader of the Real IRA has been gunned down and murdered in cold blood in Dublin in a vicious Republican feud.

Police in Northern Ireland have arrested six people following the announcement made by a masked member of the Real IRA ,at a 1916 Easter Rising commemoration ceremony at Creggan cemetery, in Derry.