A young mother who lost her husband and two children and her mother and sister in a pier-side tragedy has said her surviving baby is her reason to live.

Ten thousand homes were affected by major disruption to the water supply on the northside of Cork City yesterday which forced the closure of at least one school.

Dissident republicans have forced a terrified female bus driver to transport a bomb to a police station in the North.

An eight-year-old boy was discovered today sitting outside in freezing weather conditions in the North.

Police in the North are investigating a shooting incident in Derry.

A man was shot in the legs and hand today in a paramilitary-style attack, police said.

A six-year-old girl died after falling from a tree, police said.

A nine-year-old girl was in hospital today after being injured in a hit-and-run accident involving a stolen car.

A woman, her 10-year-old son and their pet dog were rescued from a fire today during an early morning arson attack on their home in Derry.

A 87-year-old woman is in hospital with shock after a “tiger robbery” at her home in Derry.

Fears heightened today for the safety of an American tourist who went missing in Co Derry.

The home of a woman and her nine-year-old son was targeted twice in the one night by arsonists in Derry today.

Gardaí appealed today for witnesses to last week’s horrific pile-up in Donegal which left three people dead.

AN eyewitness to the aftermath of Sunday evening’s horrific crash in Co Donegal has spoken of seeing three bodies on the road at Ballymagroarty.

Polling stations in Derry may have to close in future because of rioting youths, electoral chiefs warned tonight.

Petrol bombers who unleashed a wave of violence in Derry as European Election polling ended were provoked by a heavy police presence, the city’s mayor claimed today.

Police were today searching for a man who indecently assaulted a three-year-old girl by luring her into bushes just yards from her home.