Dissident republicans have forced a terrified female bus driver to transport a bomb to a police station in the North.

Passengers travelling to Dublin from Belfast last night experienced serious delays when a fire broke out on board a train.

The City of Culture has suffered from a poor marketing strategy, its organisers admitted today.

Bus Éireann and its unions were last night immersed in talks at the Labour Relations Commission aimed at ending the industrial action that has crippled services for 80,000 passengers a day since Sunday.

Bus Éireann has this morning confirmed the vast majority of services around the country are not operating due to industrial action.

Passengers are bracing themselves for travel chaos when Bus Éireann drivers go on strike tomorrow.

Loyalists blocked roads across Belfast tonight as part of a mass protest over flags.

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

IN the current economic climate, I would expect that Irish Rail would be making every effort to accommodate customers.

A depressive father hugged his young son and told him how he wanted him to grow up the day before he lay down in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard today.

Millions of pounds of public money is still being wasted through the mishandling of major government projects, an Assembly scrutiny committee said today.

Four buses were destroyed and two others damaged in a suspected arson attack at a depot in Co Antrim today.

A major new transport hub for buses and trains could be on the way for Belfast city centre.

Around 1,200 rugby fans face travel chaos tomorrow after a cross-border rail service from Belfast to Dublin was cancelled due to a dissident republican security alert.

Commuters along the east coast have been hit by more rail delays today.

IRISH RAIL and its northern equivalent Translink have lost 60% of their business on the Belfast-Dublin route due to the collapsed bridge at Malahide.

A 50-year-old woman has been knocked down and killed by a bus in the North, Translink confirmed today.

Four people were released on bail by police investigating the suspicious death of a teenage boy who was struck by a train.

It is thought that the teenage boy who was killed by a train last night may have ran across the track as he fled from a gang of youths.

Free public transport for everybody aged 60 or above was officially launched in the North today.

A man was critically injured last night when he was struck by a train.

A man was critically injured tonight when he was struck by a train in the North.

Early morning commuters had a lucky escape today after a train in the North ploughed into a park bench left on the tracks by vandals.

An SDLP assembly member is demanding an explanation following revelations that some tourists seeking bus tickets to Derry were told that no such place existed.

Over-worked drivers are behind a sharp rise in the number of bus and train accidents in Northern Ireland, a trade unionist claimed today.

A Catholic bus driver has been awarded almost £80,000 (€117,000) compensation for religious discrimination after he was warned he would be shot if the Troubles started again.

Auditors delivered a damning verdict on Translink today over a major railway line refurbishment in the North which careered nearly £20m (€29.5m) over budget.

The British government has announced plans to give private firms greater opportunities to provide public transport services in the North.

Bus Eireann has warned that some cross-border bus services face disruption tomorrow.

The British government has announced that it no longer recognises the Ulster Volunteer Force ceasefire.

Loyalist paramilitary chiefs tonight ordered an end to the violence sweeping across parts of the North.

The Northern Ireland Federation of Small Businesses has today given a welcome to the news that Translink is to freeze fares on the Dublin Enterprise Service until the end of the year.

Storytellers were today practising one of the country’s oldest arts by spinning yarns to children and GAA football supporters on trains heading into Dublin.

Primary schoolchildren in west Belfast were targeted today in a campaign to cut down on attacks on the essential services.

An anti-bullying charter is being drawn up in a bid to stop pupils in north Antrim being tormented on the way to class, it emerged today.

One of Ireland’s oldest trains was back on track today after undergoing an £85,000 (€127,900) overhaul.

THE Northern Ireland public are being asked when they want the trains to run and being offered a prize for doing so, it has emerged.

Motorists in Northern Ireland were facing a treacherous drive into work and school after heavy snow fell overnight.

Bus services across Northern Ireland will be halted on Friday when drivers go on strike, it was confirmed tonight.

A rock fall which caused a train to crash injuring the driver and five passengers in Co Derry could have been foreseen, a major report found today.

A fire at a Northern Ireland Electricity sub-station in west Belfast has caused disruption to power supplies in parts of the city today.

Five people were taken to hospital today following a chemical spill at a railway station.

A 22-year-old man tonight suffered two broken arms, a broken leg and puncture wounds after a frenzied attack by a mob in Co Armagh.

A new public transport company is to be formed to run bus and rail services in Northern Ireland, Stormont Regional Development Peter Robinson announced today.