A man has been released without charge after being questioned in connection with a fatal crash in Co Donegal.

A young man killed in Co Donegal on Saturday night was walking home after celebrating the christening of his baby son.

Garda killer Martin McDermott has signed himself into hospital north of the border so gardaí cannot catch up with him.

Two men have been jailed after a savage golf club attack on a man as he celebrated his daughter’s christening.

The emergency services have been hailed for their work in rescuing 26 people in a major incident on the “freezing” River Foyle.

Up to 50 schoolchildren have been taken to hospital after a bus crash.

A major incident has been declared after a school bus and a car were involved in a crash in Drumquin, Co Tyrone.

Former Derry All-Star Kevin McCloy has thanked the “life-saving efforts” of medical staff who assisted him after he collapsed in a club game last week and lost consciousness.

Scientists in the North say they have made a breakthrough in the fight against a hospital superbug which killed four babies.

There was good news about the recovery of former Derry captain Kevin McCloy yesterday, with the 35-year-old believed to be conscious and speaking to his family.

There are growing calls for an independent inquiry into Letterkenny General Hospital after it was hit by flooding for the second time in the space of a year.

An investigation has been launched at Letterkenny General Hospital in Co Donegal which has been hit by flooding for the second time in less than a year.

A Presbyterian clergyman from County Tyrone has died after getting into difficulties while diving off the County Donegal coast.

A 33-year-old man has appeared in court in Co. Donegal, charged in connection with a serious assault and robbery of an elderly man.

A man in his 30s is due to appear before Buncrana District Court at midday in connection with an assault in Co. Donegal.

A man in his 70s is in hospital after an assault in Co Donegal last night.

A young farmer believes he was simply "in the right place at the right time" when he heard a drowning fisherman’s cry for help, a half-mile away.

A fisherman was rescued yesterday after a farmer heard his cry for help a half a mile out to sea.

A three-year-old boy was among five lives lost on the roads over the bank holiday weekend.

A woman has been killed and three children are in hospital after a car accident in Co Donegal.

The secret dumping of radioactive waste in landfill sites in Belfast and Derry posed no risk to human health, a British Department of the Environment review has stated.

A pensioner has become the first person to die in a crash on the North’s roads this year.

A woman has died after she was struck by a car in county Donegal.

The closure of the Emergency Department at Letterkenny General Hospital (LGH) means local gardaí are unable to take blood or urine samples from suspected drink drivers injured in collisions.

Two people have been killed in a car crash in Co Donegal today.

Flood damage at Letterkenny General Hospital caused by torrential rain has been described as “very serious”.

A major clean-up operation is continuing at Letterkenny General Hospital, following severe flooding on Friday evening.

The owner of a trawler which sank off the North Coast with the loss of his father and uncle has hit out at the Dublin-based authorities over what he claimed was their failure to carry out a proper inquiry into the tragedy.

Five of seven wards evacuated during a blaze at a major hospital in Northern Ireland have been reopened, health chiefs said.

Northern Ireland's Health Minister Edwin Poots said it was a huge relief no-one was hurt after a blaze forced the evacuation of five floors of a major hospital in the North.

Patients on five floors at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry were evacuated because of a fire on the roof last night.

Several wards at a hospital in Derry have been evacuated because of a fire.

A rescue operation is over on Lough Swilly after a man was taken from the sea onto the Lough Swilly Lifeboat and airlifted to Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.

Fermanagh captain Ryan McCluskey will find out on Monday if he requires major surgery after sustaining a sinus cavity fracture in an accidential collision in training earlier this week.

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Traces of a deadly infection which killed four babies in hospitals in the North have been found in three more neonatal units.

All babies transferred to other units from two hospitals in the North where four infants died are to be screened for the killer infection, public health authorities said.

THE violent scenes involving Tyrone club Derrytresk in Sunday’s All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final in Portlaoise is the latest disciplinary controversy to hit GAA in the Red Hand county over the last 12 months.

Another five babies are being monitored for an infection which killed three new-borns in hospital.

The parents of 24 babies are waiting to find out if their children are free from the infection that caused the deaths of three newborns at a hospital.

LITTLE Jamie Boyce celebrates his first birthday next week, after his mother once feared she would lose him in her womb.

THE Tyrone GAA board are to investigate an incident that left double All-Ireland winner Joe McMahon with a broken jaw in a league game with his club Omagh St Enda’s on Sunday afternoon.

Joe McMahon broke his jaw in two places and also had a number of teeth knocked out during a club game yesterday afternoon.

JOE McMAHON could be ruled out of action for Tyrone’s Ulster Championship opener against Monaghan on June 5 after he suffered a broken jaw in a club game yesterday.