The green light for a £100m golf resort on the fringes of the Giant’s Causeway will not endanger the famous landmark’s world heritage designation, Northern Ireland’s Environment Minister has pledged.

A lifeguard from Bulgaria won a global Bushmills challenge to help create a new blend of the whiskey.

A 64-year-old man killed in a motorbike crash in Co. Antrim yesterday has been named.

A 19-year-old motorcyclist killed in a weekend crash in Co Tyrone was named today.

US billionaire Donald Trump is seriously considering building his luxury golf complex in the North, his top adviser said today.

HARD to believe in an era when items from our past are disappearing by the day that more than 100,000 industrial sites from previous centuries still survive.

THE powerful Irish farm lobby has a surprise admirer — Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley.

Pernod Ricard, the French drinks giant that owns the Midleton Jameson distillery, has sold off its Bushmills whiskey brand to Diageo for €298m.

Bomb-making equipment has been seized during raids in Northern Ireland, police said today.

A woman was left shaken after her 56-year-old husband was beaten by a gang in their home in the North.

IN a rural French lane under a British flag, the General looked over the assembled war veterans.

TWENTY-EIGHT jobs are to go with the closure of the Irish Distillers' North Mall bottling plant in Cork City.

A man was shot this morning as he sat in a car in Northern Ireland.

An escaped big cat has been blamed for slaughtering a ram on a farm near the Co Antrim village of Bushmills overnight.

A puma has been spotted on the loose on the north Antrim coast, it emerged tonight.

The Protestant Orange Order was today urged to meet Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and reassess its attitude to parades through nationalist areas.

GOLF tourism interests throughout the country are hopeful but openly nervous as to what the coming season holds in store.

A man has been assaulted in what police in the North are describing as a paramilitary style attack in Belfast overnight.

A young man has died after he was involved in a car crash in Co Antrim last night.

One man was treated in hospital and several other people narrowly escaped serious injury in a number of gun and bomb attacks in the North overnight.

Sectarian attacks which have blighted north Antrim must come to an end, a senior SDLP figure said today.