The town of Newry is reeling, after the death of one of the North's wealthiest businessmen.

One of the people killed when a helicopter crashed in thick fog in the UK was Northern Irish businessman Eddie Haughey, according to reports.

Dermot Desmond heads the list of Irish property investors with a personal fortune estimated at €1.7bn, according to trade magazine Estates Gazette’s rich list.

Gardaí have ordered a security alert in Co Louth.

The dissident republican terrorists suspected of planting a bomb at the home of millionaire tycoon Lord Ballyedmond near the Irish border in Co Louth were today branded cowards by a Northern Ireland Office Minister.

THE former Fianna Fáil senator, Edward Haughey, now more formally known as Lord Ballyredmond, has sold his airport at Carlisle in northern England to a local businessman for an undisclosed sum.

A row has broken out between Unionists in the North over a peerage given to businessman Edward Haughey, who will be taking the Ulster Unionist Party whip in the British House of Lords.

A court in the US has found trade secrets were stolen from Norbrook Laboratories, a Northern Ireland pharmaceutical group by a US competitor.