NEW boy Ricky Andrew returns to ‘home’ soil this evening when he makes his Ulster debut in a pre-season friendly against Bayonne at the intimidating Stade Jean Dauger stadium.

The Taoiseach Brian Cowen and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown have joined the North's First and Deputy First Ministers in the past hour to address the media after a deal was struck on the devolution of policing and justice powers.

PEOPLE in areas all over Ireland where wildlife has been under deadly pressure for decades and where some species have either disappeared or are under serious threat, are now getting involved in conservation projects.

Protestants living in Derry feel increasingly alienated and fearful about the future, research claimed today.

UP to 100 Sinn Féin supporters, including MEP Mary Lou McDonald, crowded into the Kerry County Council chamber in Tralee yesterday for the election of a daughter of Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris as Kerry mayor.

THE daughter of Kerry North Sinn Féin TD Martin Ferris is set to become Kerry mayor as part of a deal with Fianna Fáil.

The past 70 years have seen the longest and most intense period of sunspot activity for 8,000 years, scientists said today.

Award winning poet Seamus Heaney wrote Beacons at Bealtaine especially to mark the historic Day of Welcomes in Dublin.

Police today launched a murder inquiry after a man’s battered body was discovered in south Belfast.