Rival politicians have been urged to step back from tit-for-tat rows after a Sinn Fein minister was injured during a contentious parade in Northern Ireland.

Now going by the name 'Second Captains', the lads have signed on to do a weekly podcast with the Irish Times.

Wild boar may not be that wild after all, with DNA analysis showing that boars in Ireland are mostly pig.

The North's deputy first Minister Martin McGuiness says he's been told of a real and active threat against him.

A bullet and sympathy card have been sent to an SDLP Assembly member, the party has said.

Newstalk has been rocked by the departure of the award-winning team behind the acclaimed Off the Ball sports show in a row over the programme’s start time.

Police were attacked for a third night, with frontline officers reportedly coming under gunfire as fresh loyalist violence erupted in the North over the flying of the Union Flag.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after gunshots were fired during the latest trouble in Belfast.

So many accomplished players have passed through the Donegal Boston ranks during the club’s first 25 years that the summer of a young Jim McGuinness doesn’t stand out as much as you’d think.

THE first thing to say about Eoin McDevitt is that the guy should have his voice insured... if he hasn’t already.

Chief executive of Northern Ireland Water (NIW) Laurence MacKenzie is set to resign over his organisation’s mishandling of the region’s water crisis.

Door staff at a Letterkenny nightclub received no approach for work from any of three men from the North accused of membership of the IRA in the hours before their arrest, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A heroin-addict father of two who told gardaí he hijacked a woman's car with her infant child in it and then tried to rob a pharmacy because he wanted to be returned to prison has been jailed for three years.

UP to 10,000 cancer patients, relatives and their friends marched in Co Donegal in protest at the area’s lack of cancer of services, which they blamed on their “geographic and political isolation”.

The death of a nine-year-old boy in a quarry in Co Donegal is a terrible tragedy, a parish priest said today.

Explosions which killed three people at a McDonald's restaurant and a car dealership in Indonesia were caused by bombs.