A farmer has been killed and his twin brother mauled in a bull attack in Co Donegal.

A farmer has been killed and his brother seriously injured after being attacked by a bull.

Garda killer Martin McDermott has signed himself into hospital north of the border so gardaí cannot catch up with him.

Garda killer Martin McDermott is on the run again after he was involved in a serious road smash which almost killed him.

Vandals attacked a plaque erected to a garda killed in the line of duty and then dumped it outside his girlfriend’s house.

Another cracking day’s racing on the An Post Rás saw the Swiss team play pass the parcel with the yellow jersey as Nicolas Baldo took over the race lead and young Frenchman Thomas Rostollan lived up to his nickname of ‘little motorbike’ to claim stage three into Buncrana.

Convicted garda killer Martin McDermott has appeared at Derry Magistrates Court today on charges connected to his arrest in Derry last Friday.

The Donegal man who escaped from a prison in Co Cavan on Thursday night has appeared before Derry magistrates court today.

A prisoner who killed a garda was on the run last night after escaping from a prison in Cavan.

Five men have been killed on Irish roads in four separate crashes since yesterday.

Four people have been killed on the roads in three separate crashes.

Two people have died in separate crashes in counties Laois and Donegal.

THE number of sheep shorn in Ireland will continue to decline rapidly unless serious action is taken urgently by the Government to allocate funds to the sector, it was claimed yesterday.

A small rural community was plunged in to mourning today after two young friends were killed in a road crash.

A number of schoolchildren have escaped injury in a bus crash in Co Donegal this morning.

Mourners sobbed today as they sang You'll Never Walk Alone for the father of the tragic Dunne family, who are to be buried hundreds of miles apart.

A Derry woman who was being questioned about the death of her husband earlier this week has been released without charge pending further inquiries.

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was among three people killed in a horrific crash in Co Donegal yesterday.

A teenage boy was among three people killed in a two-car collision in Co Donegal near the Northern Ireland border, gardaí said tonight.

Three people have died after a road collision occurred at Speenogue, Burt, Donegal on the N13 road between Letterkenny and Derry at 7am this morning.