The DUP’s Jeffrey Donaldson has called on the Irish courts and the Irish government to facilitate any extradition request for controversial former priest Patrick Ryan who confessed his involvement with the Brighton bombing on a BBC programme which is to be broadcast on Tuesday night.

The man accused of carrying out the Finsbury Park terror attack was a "ticking time-bomb" who became obsessed with Muslims after watching a drama based on the Rochdale grooming scandal, a court heard.

Such is the way of these things now Munster finals wins, even four of them in a row, are viewed through the prism and in the context of August and September.

SO KIND: Triplets Jo, Lizzie, and Anna McCaughey, age 6, and Elva McCauley, 7, announce the Random Acts of Kindness Festival which takes place in Clonakilty tomorrow. 

Republicans who received letters from the British government assuring them they were not being sought by the authorities can no longer rely on them, the Northern Ireland Secretary has announced.

Brewer Guinness was prepared to drop associations with Ireland and promote itself as an English company in the 1980s because of the IRA bombing campaigns, state papers have revealed.

Eve Johnson Houghton just about held herself together after The Cheka provided the trainer with her first Group-race win in the Timeform Jury Stakes at Haydock.

The General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions today admitted the future of the Croke Park Agreement is very finely balanced.

Tyrone goalkeeper John Devine will miss the start of the 2010 inter-county season after surgery on his left shoulder in Belfast yesterday.

Magners League high flyers Munster open up the new era at Thomond Park by hosting Glasgow this evening.