A Donegal man who nearly died after he suffered a cardiac arrest during a game of golf last week has praised his fellow golfers for saving his life.

An underground fire is raging at a controversial landfill in Co Kildare.

A soldier on duty on the periphery of Derry’s Bogside on Bloody Sunday was cheered by colleagues when he claimed a "hit" that day, the new inquiry into the shootings heard today.

A man who was shot by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday has told the inquiry into the massacre that evidence against him was fabricated.