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Over a year ago, Niall Brady from Newry decided to set himself a challenge.

Former European Elite and AIBA World Youth champion Ray Moylette believes he has a point to prove against Wexford’s Dean Walsh at the National Elite Championships at the National Stadium, Dublin.

A farm blaze that killed thousands of pigs in Northern Ireland was accidental, fire investigators have said.

Yesterday’s bank holiday race meeting in Fairyhouse was a real turn-up for the books — or should that be for the bookies?

A convicted cigarette smuggler who featured on a list of Most Wanted tax fugitives this summer has been found.

A host of Ireland’s finest performers are up for Britain’s coveted National Television Awards, it has emerged.

GAA President Christy Cooney has offered his condolences to the family of Patrick Dinsmore who collapsed and died while playing minor football for St. Peter's GAA Club in County Down last Sunday morning.

SETANTA O hAilpín has returned from injury to reclaim his position in the Carlton team to play Brisbane in what is a vital AFL game for both sides at the Etihad Stadium today.

Dissident republicans who bombed a police station near the border are hell-bent on killing police officers, it was claimed today.

Firefighters were hailed as heroes today after evacuating residents moments before a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the North.

Police in the North will today carry out a painstaking investigation into a car bomb attack by dissident republicans.

LEINSTER COUNCIL chairman Seamus Howlin is unconvinced that the provincial club championships should be moved to an alternative time in the calendar to avoid worsening winter conditions.

A huge bomb planted close to the border was intended to murder police officers, a security chief said tonight.

Sinn Féin will not be renewing leases on London flats after the party’s abstentionist MPs hit the headlines for claiming £500,000 (€580,000) in rental expenses, it was revealed today.

The incoming US Ambassador to Ireland is due to present his credentials to President Mary McAleese today.

A Sinn Féin minister in the North has been warned of an attempt to murder him by loyalist paramilitaries.

The SDLP today proposed its own legislative proposals to protect the rights of Irish speakers in the North.

The home of one of the men publicly linked to the murder of south Armagh man Paul Quinn has been attacked four times, the local MP said today.

A drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre on the border has been forced to close its doors because it could not address health and fire safety concerns, it emerged tonight.

A teenager has been charged with the murder of a father-of-four who was stabbed to death in a street yards from his home.

YOUTHS who collided with a mother and her three children during a cross-Border stolen car rampage could easily have killed someone, police said yesterday.

The nationalist SDLP was accused today of sending out mixed messages on its attitude to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which reconvenes next week.

The SDLP was today accused of encouraging unionists in the North to believe they could water down the Good Friday Agreement.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair tonight faced demands from Sinn Féin to remove clauses from a controversial Bill which would allow police and British army involved in murders during Northern Ireland’s Troubles to avoid jail.

BRITISH police and gardaí are still examining documents seized during raids in the Manchester area, which may be connected to alleged IRA money laundering.

The Reverend Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists tonight confirmed they had suspended an Assembly member over allegations about his private life.

TWO more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed last night.

Two more SDLP councillors have received death threats, the party confirmed tonight.

A car salesman may have been murdered in his home by thieves during a break-in, it emerged today.

Northern Ireland faces considerable challenges in the years ahead from European Union enlargement, the Democratic Unionist’s new European Parliament candidate claimed today.

Unionist and loyalist politicians were today heading to South Africa for talks aimed at producing a single unionist vision for Northern Ireland’s peace process.

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon today ruled himself out of the SDLP leadership contest.