The Probation Service and Rape Crisis Network Ireland have backed draft laws regarding the disclosure of information, electronic tagging and restricting foreign travels of convicted sex offenders.

Drink or drugs were responsible for a quarter of fatal collisions in the North last year, police say, the highest level recorded for the last five years.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said it is "only a matter of time" before same-sex marriage is introduced in Northern Ireland, as he attended a gay Pride event in Belfast.

Four men were tonight charged with drugs offences in the North following police swoops aimed at disrupting the drugs trade.