A ferry business move from one far-flung island corner of Ireland to the other brings the country’s most southerly pub and restaurant up for sale, on a hugely-popular tourist island, with a €250,000 asking price.

A new state-of-the-art lifeboat is to be stationed at Red Bay on the Co Antrim coast, the RNLI announced today.

Tourism chiefs hope the big screen success of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe will attract visitors to Northern Ireland to savour the scenery which inspired CS Lewis, it emerged today.

The North’s Boundary Commission has revealed plans to redraw constituency borders to reflect changes in population.