The North’s first gay rugby team is guilty of promoting a sporting apartheid, Stormont sports minister Edwin Poots claimed tonight.

A north Belfast couple were tonight preparing to flee their home after a sectarian petrol bomb attack which they say could easily have killed their 18-day-old son.

A BOMB attack on a prison officer’s home in which his young daughter had a narrow escape after unwittingly picking up the device was branded contemptible yesterday.