Rathbarry in Co Cork has been named the overall winner of Ireland’s best kept town competition, 2017.

Police in the north have charged a 27-year-old man with attempted murder following a stabbing in Antrim Town.

An IRA sniper convicted of killing the last British soldier to die before the Good Friday peace agreement has been found dead.

A teenager is in a serious condition in hospital in the North after he was viciously attacked.