Foster acknowledges pain caused to thousands as survivors seek public inquiry

Questions over infant mortality rates and forced adoption expected to be raised by report

Harris also reports to Police Authority security challenges in rise of far right groups

Masked officers at North Frederick Street demonstration in an ‘invidious situation’

Credibility-damaged Garda crime statistics arise from disputed use of ‘detected’

Detection of sexual crimes down by 19 per cent while reporting marginally increases

Josephine Feehily and former senior PSNI officer Judith Gillespie will not be applying

Authority and Garda meetings will have to be more robust to have any credibility

Irish Council for Civil Liberties ‘surprised and disappointed’ appointment made solely on recommendation of Minister for Justice

Sinn Féin Policing Board member claims process ‘may have been compromised’

Actor joins Angelina Jolie and more than 1,100 other names on honours list

Derek Byrne among three applicants to face interview to replace retiring Matt Baggott

Board guards the guardians and could be replicated in the South

Most senior PSNI officer is not seeking extension to his five-year contract