The Government in the UK has ruled out compensating residents of an apartment block damaged by a loyalist bonfire.

Duty calls and doesn’t Peter Turley know it. First introduced to the Down set-up by Ross Carr in 2008, the midfielder played up until 2009, before work with the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service meant he had to quit.

Thousands of Orange Order members took part in parades across Northern Ireland as part of the Twelfth of July celebrations.

The amount of dangerous air pollution over Belfast during bonfire night was more than double internationally accepted levels.

A factory-owner said he watched everything he had worked for his entire life go up in smoke as his business burned to the ground.

A gorse fire in the North which forced families to evacuate their homes overnight was started deliberately, a fire service there believes.

Gangs of bikers and youths pelting fireworks caused Halloween chaos for emergency services across the UK and Northern Ireland.

An elderly couple has escaped serious injury after a house fire in Antrim.

An Orange hall has been extensively damaged by a fire.

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

A 60-year-old man has been found dead at a house in County Down, which was the scene of a major incident involving carbon monoxide poisoning.

A family have escaped injury during a fire in Co Down.

Police are investigating the cause of a fire that killed thousands of pigs at a farm in the North.

A farm blaze that killed thousands of pigs in Northern Ireland was accidental, fire investigators have said.

Up to 4,300 pigs have died in a suspected arson attack at a farm in Northern Ireland.

A firefighter has collapsed and died while on duty in Co Armagh.

Belfast has avoided the serious flooding that many feared after a tidal surge came and went without breaching defences.

Police have warned that the docks area close to Belfast city centre could flood in a tidal surge later today, but have expressed hope that serious flooding in the east of the city may now be prevented.

A man in his 70s has been killed in a house fire in Co Tyrone.

Eighteen people were treated after a toxic gas leak on a ship docked at a Northern Ireland harbour.

Eighteen people are being treated after toxic gas used to kill rodents escaped from a ship docked at a harbour in the North.

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.

The rugby star killed in a farming tragedy alongside his brother and his father was hailed by teammates as a wonderful sportsman and person.

Team mates of a young rugby star killed in a farming tragedy alongside his brother and his father in Northern Ireland have said he was a wonderful sportsman and a wonderful person.

Nevin Spence’s management company have expressed their “deep regret” after the Ulster centre’s death in a farming accident.

Ulster rugby star Nevin Spence was killed alongside his brother and their father in a farming tragedy which also injured their sister in the North.

Three men died and a woman was injured after they fell into a slurry tank at a farm at Hillsborough in Northern Ireland.

A blaze which swept through a clothes recycling plant and warehouse near the border was one of the biggest in years to be dealt with by firefighters in the North.

Fire crews battled a huge blaze at a clothes recycling plant and warehouse near the border today.

Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service today rescued a woman from her car who was trapped in flood water on the Burrenbridge Road in Castlewellan, Co Down.

A pipe bomb with the capacity to kill has been left close to a primary school in the North.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North, it has emerged.

Twenty-two police officers have been injured during rioting in the North overnight.

At least seven police officers have been injured after coming under attack by crowds of rioters in west Belfast last night.

The outbreak of wildfires raging across Ireland because of the lengthy dry spell is unprecedented, according to fire chiefs.

St Patrick's Day revellers in the Holylands area of Belfast have been warned they could be left with a life-time hangover if they do not behave.

A PSNI air crew who escaped major injury when their helicopter flipped upside down on landing are lucky to be alive, a senior officer said tonight.

Ireland’s first swine flu victim was today described as a courageous and determined young woman with a zest for life.

A fire station in the North gutted in an overnight blaze was not fitted with smoke alarms, officials confirmed today.

A primary school in the North has been severely damaged in a fire in the early hours of this morning.

An additional £14m (€17.92m) is to be spent replacing 26 fire stations across the North, it was announced today.

FIRE safety experts have demonstrated the devastating consequences of throwing water on a blazing chip-pan fire.