This was a big win for Galway in Mullingar yesterday, an expected win with 10 points to spare, and yet when it was all over it was probably Westmeath manager Brian Hanley who would have felt most pleased.

In naming his team to face Galway on Sunday, Westmeath manager Brian Hanley has given a vote of confidence to the players that started the Leinster SHC first round win over Antrim.

In naming his team to face Galway on Sunday, Westmeath manager Brian Hanley has given a vote of confidence to the players that started the Leinster SHC first round win over Antrim.

Seventy-five Quinn Insurance jobs in Enniskillen have won a reprieve, it was revealed today.

More than £5m (€5.7m) was paid out in British government support for Quinn Insurance, the North's Enterprise Minister said tonight.

Billionaire tycoon Sean Quinn tonight accused the Financial Regulator of putting 5,500 jobs at risk after it penalised his family business for a second time.

Ireland’s largest insurance firm was effectively in the control of the State today after the financial watchdog said it was gravely concerned about the company.

The family of a baby girl murdered in an allegedly horrific assault tonight spoke of their unbearable grief.

Police have this afternoon named the 15-month-old girl fatally injured in an alleged assault as Millie Martin, from Glebe Park in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh.

Police continue to question a man today about the death of a 15-month-old girl injured in an alleged assault at a house in the North.

Police have launched a murder inquiry after a 15-month-old toddler injured in an alleged assault at a house in the North died today.

THREE tragedies. Three daughters lost. Three families looking for answers.

Householders in the North may not pay water bills for the next three years under legislation introduced in the Northern Assembly today.

The SDLP today announced a wide-ranging reshuffle of its Assembly team.

A 21-year-old man was arrested today in connection with the racist attacks on Romanian families in Belfast.

Stormont's Parliament Buildings should join iconic sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge and Sydney Opera House in staging a 'black-out' to highlight climate change, it was claimed today.

After the death last night of a 15-year-old boy in Fermanagh in a road collision, the local SDLP assembly member has called for a complete re-think on the safety of children walking home from school.

A review of more than 2,000 refused planning applications for rural homes in the North is set to be completed by next summer, Stormont’s Environment minister said today.

A father-of-three was stabbed to death as he returned home from celebrating his daughter’s 18th birthday, it emerged tonight.

Stormont ministers will make the issue of health screening for up-and-coming athletes a top priority following the deaths of four young people on both sides of the border, the Ian Paisley insisted today.

The body of one of two men missing in Lough Erne was discovered today in Co Fermanagh.

A car was being examined tonight by detectives probing the discovery of a woman’s body in a lake in the North.

Politicians opposed to the seven new super councils planned for the North were accused today of being more concerned about their own careers than what is best for local government.

The boundaries and names of the seven new local government districts in the North will be unveiled today.

FIVE people were killed in two separate road accidents in the North yesterday.

The SDLP has criticised an Ulster Unionist peer for suggesting in the British House of Lords that the Knights of Columbanus are running Waterways Ireland.

The British government was warned today that its long-term aim of transferring responsibility for public housing in Northern Ireland to seven local ‘super councils’ was fraught with political danger.

Families involved in the Morris Tribunal will be among those at tonight’s meeting, writes John Breslin.

Police officers in Northern Ireland are today preparing to interview pupils, teachers and parents about an incident where a five-year-old boy was shot in the head in a school playground.

The Reverend Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists have selected a former Ulster Unionist as a candidate in the next General Election.

A number of leading politicians were among the mourners at the funeral today of former Ulster Unionist leader Harry West.

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

Two people were arrested in Northern Ireland today following the seizure of weapons in a crackdown on dissident republican terrorists.

Dissident republicans today stand accused of trying to whip up tensions by exploding a bomb in Northern Ireland ahead of a key peace process meeting.

The British government was today accused of reneging on a commitment in the Good Friday Agreement to promote and develop the Irish language.

The SDLP today called for an overhaul of the student grant system in a bid to help ease the burden of debt faced by students and their families.

The Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein were today preparing for a Belfast High Court showdown over a hotly disputed General Election result.

Sinn Fein’s Fermanagh and South Tyrone candidate Michelle Gildernew has seized upon the IRA hunger striker’s stunning victory in the 1981 by-election as a template for republican success.

The Minister for Agriculture was accused of prolonging draconian anti-foot and mouth measures unnecessarily.

The SDLP assemblyman, Tommy Gallagher, is to meet with the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Dublin today to officially complain about the behaviour of the British parachute regiment currently based in Co Fermanagh.

An alleged incursion by British troops into Donegal is to be taken up with the Irish and British governments.

Unionist and nationalists have clashed over demands for the British Parachute Regiment to leave Co Fermanagh following an incursion into the Republic.

Gardai in Donegal are investigating complaints that members of the British Paratroopers crossed over the border into the Republic yesterday.