A new cross border bridge has been given the green light after Stormont stumped up its share of the £14m (€16.3m) construction funding.

The killing of a farmer in his isolated home was savage, police in the North said today.

THIEVES tried to tie up a one-year-old baby girl during a robbery in Co Armagh, police said.

A MAN shot and killed in the North may have been the victim of a falling-out between dissident republicans.

A dissident republican shot and killed in south Armagh had been freed from jail in the Republic of Ireland last year, it emerged today.