IRISH RAIL and its northern equivalent Translink have lost 60% of their business on the Belfast-Dublin route due to the collapsed bridge at Malahide.

More than 17,000 graduates in the North have yet to start paying off student loans, it has emerged.

THE Dublin skyline was going to change with a trend towards tall buildings, the planning appeal against the refusal for a 37-storey Ballsbridge development proposed by property magnate Seán Dunne was told yesterday.

The North’s First Minister Ian Paisley today refused to give the Assembly an assurance his son will have no role in bringing forward legislation in relation to gays and lesbians.

Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds, and Sinn Féin's policing spokesperson Gerry Kelly became the third and fourth Assembly members to be elected in the North's Assembly elections today, both capturing seats in North Belfast.

The North’s politicians were tonight reporting an above-average turnout at the polls even before the traditional surge of voters in the Assembly Election.

A man and a seven-year-old girl have been killed after a car smashed into a tree.

With all 108 seats filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly the party shares are: