Latest: A fourth person has been arrested by police investigating the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a lorry in Essex.

The directors of a Co Monaghan hire company has said it is “shellshocked” and “gutted” after 39 Chinese people were found dead in one of its trailers.

Gardaí do not believe that the 39 people found dead in a container yesterday in the UK were trafficked through Ireland.

Many years ago, my wife and I went north. It was the first time we had travelled north together, and we were to pick up a wedding present made by Tyrone Crystal.

Sky's Ireland correspondent held his hands up this week with a very personal family tale of Robin Hood-style border smuggling from times past.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a serious attack on two men in County Armagh.

An elderly woman was attacked with a crowbar after she caught a man trying to force open a church donation box in Armagh, it has emerged.

Denise Walsh and Aoife Casey continued a remarkable run of success for Rowing Ireland with a win in the London Metropolitan Regatta last weekend, taking the top spot in the Elite Championship double sculls at Dorney Lake. Monika Dukarska of Killorglin Rowing Club also took the title in the women’s single sculls. A total of fourteen Irish clubs were represented at the event.

The bodies of Michael and Majorie Cawdery, both 83, were found in their Portadown home on Friday May 26.

A man has been charged with the murder of a couple in their own home.

LATEST: The community of Portadown, Co Armagh is said to be in shock following the murder of an elderly couple.

Police in the North are investigating the sudden death of a 15-year-old girl.

Four men and one woman have been charged with arson and drugs offences linked to attacks on the homes of police officers in the North.

Rowing Ireland’s High Performance director, Morten Espersen confirmed this week he is resigning from his position, bringing to a close a huge contribution made by the Dane over the past four years. 

Crowdfunding pages have been established to help families whose homes were burned by an Eleventh Night bonfire in Belfast.

A row of terraced houses caught fire close to one of the huge loyalist bonfires lit in the North to usher in the main date of the Orange Order's parading season.

After university Christine wrote poetry, but she never published any. She had various jobs; she worked in the Arts in Bristol; she managed an art gallery, worked on an arts magazine, and wrote a grammar for foreign learners for IBM.

The first session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point meeting took place at a sun-drenched Farrangalway on Saturday evening and Ciaran Fennessy increased his advantage to four over the absent Derek O’Connor in the southern riders’ championship by partnering a two-timer to bring his tally in the region to 23.

Long Meadow Cider is made by the McKeever family from Portadown in Co Armagh with apples grown on their 30-acre farm. 

Thieves have tried to steal a cash machine from a railway station in Portadown in Co Armagh.

Cork Church of Ireland and UCC marched into round two of the men’s Irish Senior Cup but the alarming decline in Cork Harlequins’ fortunes continues.

There will be an extra motivation for the members of Ireland’s senior men’s team as they line out for their clubs in the Irish Senior Cup’s opening round this weekend.

With consistent performances on the opening four rounds of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship, London-based Cork driver Michael O’Brien (Ford Focus WRC) makes another trip across the Irish Sea for tomorrow’s TuffMac Trailers Lakeland Rally in Enniskillen. The event also counts towards the Northern Ireland McGrady Insurance and Carryduff Forklift Championship.

Mystery surrounds a starving, bedraggled stray cat taken in by a shelter in Co Armagh - after a health check revealed he came from Australia.

THE normal standards of right and wrong did not apply to his parishioners,” observes Fr Jack Fee early on in Anthony J Quinn’s Disappeared, “only what was necessary or unnecessary for survival.”

Five-time Northern Ireland Rally champion Derek McGarrity S14 Subaru WRC heads the entry for tomorrow’s eight stage tarmac Ryan Bradley Memorial Tour of Sperrins Rally in Maghera, County Derry.

Although they led the Tralee-based Fels Point Circuit of Kerry Rally from the start, the Kerry/Cork duo of Alan Ring and Adrian Deasy in the Munster Joinery liveried S12B Subaru WRC had to push hard through the final stage to ensure victory.

Aaron Kernan said the vast majority of the Sunderland players he encountered couldn’t understand why he put so much into an amateur sports career.

An object found under the car of a soldier in Northern Ireland was not an explosive, police have said.

British Army bomb disposal experts are examining a suspected explosive device found under a soldier’s car in the North.

A security alert is underway in Portadown in Co Armagh after a suspicious object was found at the Corbracky Road area earlier.

Irish hockey will expand to include a full national league next season after a drawn-out debate was finally settled yesterday.

Tributes have been paid to the top archeologist who helped bring closure to the anguished families of the North’s Disappeared.

Two men are due in court in the North this morning charged with a serious sexual assault in the Portadown area of Co Armagh.

On his first forest rally in some three years Donegal’s Donagh Kelly, driving the McGeehan Motorsport Mini WRC, won the Samdec Security Lakeland Forest Rally in Enniskillen.

Even though Donegal’s Declan Boyle secured enough points to land the Clonakilty Black Pudding Irish Tarmac Championship, he will contest the Acesigns Cork 20 International Rally, the final round of the series.

A judge has stopped the trial of two men and a woman in connection with the sectarian murder of a man by a loyalist mob in the North.

A judge has stopped the trial of three men in connection with the sectarian murder of a man by a loyalist mob in Northern Ireland.

Detectives in the North have arrested a man and a woman as part of an investigation into potential human trafficking and labour exploitation.

Two men have been remanded in custody charged with a string of people trafficking and forced labour offences in the North.

A 53-year-old man has been arrested in the North by police investigating the murder of Caroline Graham, who went missing in 1989.

Forensic scientists have been asked to examine items found by specialist dogs in the North searching for the body of a murdered woman who went missing from there 25 years ago.

Fresh searches have taken place at the home of a young woman who was murdered 25 years ago.

The Irish crew of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle guided their Citroen DS3 to a magnificent third place finish on Rally Finland, round eight of the World Rally Championship.