A mother and six children have been left homeless after a fire destroyed their west Belfast house on Christmas Day.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has resigned from his Westminster seat today.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams ended his Stormont career today by praising the “remarkable” achievement of power-sharing.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams is to meet his party's Dail team at Leinster House today.

IF he had called off his hunger strike, Bobby Sands would be 54 and still, very possibly, the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

MORE THAN 1,000 mourners yesterday attended the funeral of Sinn Féin aide Siobhan O’Hanlon.

A POWERFUL production of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans by Ballyduff Drama Group of west Waterford won the Bryan MacMahon Trophy, the top award in the open competition at the North Cork Drama Festival, now in its 54th year.

Tipperary host Wexford in Division 1B of the National Hurling League today and boss Ken Hogan has made three changes to the side that defeated Limerick last time out.

Former Clare sub-goalkeeper Ger O'Connell makes his first start for Limerick as they host Down in the National Hurling League at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday.

FORMER star forward Joe McKenna was last night elected interim manager of the Limerick senior hurling team by his fellow selectors.

AN inevitable consequence of the recent strides made in Limerick football has been a lowering of the profile of the county hurlers when there would have been strong hopes of a breakthrough after significant success at U21 level.

A TRAWLER skipper was so drunk at the helm he zigzagged his way across a harbour and narrowly avoided ploughing into a main fuel supply line at Ireland’s only refinery.

Republican hunger strikers 20 years ago raised their movement’s struggle against the British presence to a "moral threshold", Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said today.