Scheduled to play their Sigerson Cup game against Queen’s University in Belfast, the management team of Galway and Mayo Institute of Technology made the sensible decision to book a hotel.

A PSNI officer is recovering in hospital after he was crushed against a car in west Belfast.

In the North, police are dealing with a serious road traffic incident in the Falls Road area in Belfast this morning.

Two masked men attempted to hold up a shop with taser stun guns in the North.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in the head and neck in west Belfast.

Nine people were injured today following a police car pursuit in west Belfast.

A woman’s family was held captive by 'tiger kidnappers' today as she was forced to remove cash from her workplace.

A well known Sinn Féin building has been targeted in the latest of a series of attacks on party property blamed on hard-line republicans.

A security alert in Belfast has been declared a hoax.

A security alert is underway in Co. Antrim.

THE bank official charged with the £26.5 million (€33m) Northern Bank robbery made last-minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty that day.

The bank official charged with the £26.5m (€33m) Northern Bank robbery in Belfast made last minute changes to the rota of staff who had a key to the vault to put himself on duty on the day, the opening day of his trial was told today.

A 23-year-old woman is in a critical condition today after a serious assault in west Belfast.

A man was tonight charged over a hit-and-run in west Belfast which claimed the life of a woman and seriously injured her best friend.

A woman killed in a hit-and-run outside a west Belfast pub was struck by a red car, police said tonight.

Two police officers were injured overnight after they were attacked with bricks and other missiles in west Belfast while responding to a fire at a petrol station.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Brian Cowen last night launched an attack on dissident republicans who are waging a campaign of intimidation against nationalist members of the North’s Policing Board.

Army bomb experts carried out two controlled explosions today on a suspect device outside the west Belfast offices of SDLP Assembly member Alex Attwood.

A decision will be taken today on whether to close down one of the most prominent police stations in the heart of republican West Belfast.

A man has been arrested by police investigating the rape of a woman in west Belfast.

Police in the North have praised the public response to the release of a computer-generated image of a man suspected of raping a woman in west Belfast last Friday night.