When the Troubles broke out, local press photographers in Northern Ireland were thrust on to the front line of daily shootings, bombings and murders, becoming war correspondents in their home towns, writes Dan Buckley.

If you type “write to prisoners” into Google you’ll find a whole host of websites allowing people to contact inmates of US prisons. Many have committed violent crimes, some are on death row.

A PHARMACIST who bludgeoned a pensioner with a crucifix in a violent and drunken attack was jailed for life for murder in Belfast yesterday.

FIANNA FÁIL was last night facing a Dáil meltdown with the prospect of returning fewer than 30 TDs at the looming national poll if its dismal Donegal South West by-election showing is repeated across the country.