The Bank of Ireland is closing eight branches in the North.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Gardaí yesterday resumed their search for missing schoolgirl Mary Boyle within a few hundred metres from where she was last seen alive nearly 40 years ago.

Rory Gallagher says the larger gap this year compared to last before the Ulster SFC means his Donegal side can enjoy the Allianz League.

It was on October’s first Friday last year the Donegal panel each received a simultaneous text message that thanked them for their service and wished them all the best for their future — both individually and collectively.

Newly-appointed Donegal manager Rory Gallagher last night expressed his gratitude to predecessor Jim McGuinness.

The RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta Donegal SFC was in a state of limbo last night as an appeal by Naomh Conaill into the result of Sunday’s semi-final was being discussed by the Competitions’ Control Committee.

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Inquiries into a hit-and-run death along the border have been upgraded to a murder investigation.

A man in his 40s, arrested in connection with a fatal road crash in Co Fermanagh, has been released without charge.

Kya deLongchamps looks at the incredible history of Belleek, the jewel in Ireland’s pottery crown.

Jim McGuinness will assemble a largely new backroom team with Donegal’s senior footballers following the news Rory Gallagher and two other members have departed the set-up.

IF Michael Collins hoped the Northern Offensive would concentrate the political focus on Northern Ireland, he must have been sorely disappointed, because the orgy of murder was not confined to the North.

As a player Rory Gallagher always made a big impression and brought a swagger to Fermanagh football. Now, as right hand man to Jim McGuinness, he’s bringing that style to Donegal.

COILLTE has officially opened enhanced forest recreational facilities at Belleek Wood, Ballina, Co Mayo.

Police in the North have described yesterday's bomb attack in Armagh as a "totally reckless" act that was designed to kill or wound police officers.

Police are investigating the cause of an explosion in the North tonight.

It has emerged that the PSNI mistakenly mounted a checkpoint in the Tánaiste's constituency last week.

Rescuers have spent most of the day searching for a small aircraft reported crashed in the North.

Gardaí in Donegal are continuing to question four men in connection with a bank robbery in Co Fermanagh on Friday.

A family are recovering this morning after they were held up in an armed robbery in Belleek, in Co Fermanagh last night.

A licensed gun dealer in the North was held up at gunpoint and robbed of a number of weapons, it was revealed today.

A licensed gun dealer in the North was held up at gunpoint and robbed of a number of weapons, it was revealed today.

Ronan Gallagher’s return to arms is one of a myriad of plots surrounding Fermanagh’s progress to Sunday’s Ulster final. Brendan O’Brien explains.

Detectives investigating the discovery of a woman’s body in a lake in the North tonight said they are no longer treating the case as suspicious.

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

Police in the North are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in Louth Erne in Co Fermanagh last night.

New Mayo senior football manager John O'Mahony is hoping a well-timed trip to America and the Caribbean will have his players primed for the new season.

A PRIEST has paid £6,500 (€9,600) to a female primary schoolteacher he was accused of harassing.

YOUTHS who collided with a mother and her three children during a cross-Border stolen car rampage could easily have killed someone, police said yesterday.

IN the past there have always been people in the wings who have had a vested interest in destroying the various peace initiatives.

MI5 withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bombing, it emerged yesterday.

MI5 withheld vital anti-terrorism intelligence just months before the Omagh bomb atrocity, it was revealed today.

A man is to be charged with murdering the 29 people who died in the Omagh bomb atrocity, it emerged tonight.

When sprawling suburbia enveloped Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the local GAA club didn’t sit on their hands. St Brigid’s instigated a juvenile programme which has brought them all the way to an All-Ireland Club SFC semi final on Sunday. Mark Gallagher visited Dublin 15.

ORGANISED criminal gangs, possibly with paramilitary connections, are involved in the large-scale and lucrative business of transporting waste from the Republic and illegally dumping it over the Border, authorities in the North believe.

Policing in Northern Ireland has changed more in the last 18 months than in the previous 80 years, it was claimed today.

A controversial monument to dead IRA members in Co Fermanagh is being removed because of protests from the families of two men murdered by the organisation, it was revealed today.

Colm Murphy, the only man to be convicted in connection with the Omagh bombing has served jail sentences on both sides of the Atlantic for his role in terrorism.

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.