THE airline that6 left 500 passengers stranded in three airports on both sides of the Atlantic for five days, after lightning struck one of its aircraft, may stop flights to New York during the winter.

Winless Ireland slumped to another defeat in the Friends Provident Trophy - this time by six wickets to Middlesex – after being slayed by two former Emerald Isles internationals.

Two teenage girls are facing life sentences for the brutal murder of a Northern Ireland man whose father was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries.

Two teenage girls were facing life in prison today after being found guilty of the murder of a middle-aged man they accused of making an indecent proposal during a party.