Oscar-winning writer and actor Colin Welland has died aged 81.

The infrastructure needed by Irish speakers is about to be destroyed.

Attempts to free stranded lifeboat the ’Katie Hannan’ which is stuck on rocks on Rathlin Island have been called off tonight.

The Portrush RNLI all-weather lifeboat was left stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island off the North’s coast last night after attempting to rescue three people whose boat was perilously close to rocks.

POWERBOATS accounted for one in four emergency calls to the lifeboat service last year.

Search and rescue statistics issued today show that powered pleasure craft represented more than a quarter of all call-outs for Irish lifeboats in 2006.

Local owner Graham Povey realised one of his lifetime ambitions when Flying Key, the first horse to carry his colours, won the Bryn Thomas Crane Hire Nursery at Chester today.

A number of lifeboat crew members in a Co Down seaside town have returned to duty following a bitter internal dispute, it emerged today.

Lifeboat services have been withdrawn from a seaside town in Co Down after more than half its staff quit in a bitter internal dispute, it emerged today.

Senior management of the RNLI have withdrawn the inshore lifeboat service from the Newcastle, Co Down, station due to an internal dispute between the Station Coxswain and crew members.