A man has been treated in hospital after being shot with a crossbow, police said today.

A teenager has died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Antrim in the early hours of this morning.

KILLARNEY was yesterday named as Ireland’s best-kept town.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

A 46-year-old man accused of murdering his wife told police he did not mean to kill her, a court heard today.

A 46-year-old man was appearing in court today accused of the murder of a childminder shot dead at a Georgian mansion in Co Antrim.

A 46-year-old man was charged with murder tonight after a childminder was shot dead at a Georgian mansion in Co Antrim.

Police were today continuing to question a man about the murder of a childminder at a Georgian mansion in Co Antrim.

A MILLIONAIRE’S childminder was shot dead at his Georgian mansion yesterday. Mother-of-two Catrina Baird, 40, was gunned down in the courtyard of the house near Ballymena, Co Antrim.

A priest spoke today of a family’s grief as a 20-year-old man died without regaining consciousness after being beaten up outside a nightclub in Portrush, Co Antrim.

Police in the North have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with a sectarian assault last weekend which left a student critically ill.

Two men were today arrested by police investigating an assault outside a Co Antrim nightclub which left a Belfast student critically ill.

A man who murdered a young woman by repeatedly beating her and gluing her lips together was today jailed for a minimum of 17 years.

The RUC have revealed that two more Catholic homes were pipe-bombed overnight - this time in the mainly Protestant village of Broughshane near Ballymena.