Two rampaging drivers who injured a total of 23 people in nearly identical incidents in France were apparently mentally ill and the attacks are unlikely to be linked to terrorism, government officials have said.

As we all get ready to head home to our corners of the country - or the globe - to see family and friends this Christmas, Dublin is already getting an early present.

Munster supporters won’t have to walk more than 20 minutes tomorrow to satisfy all their needs on a pivotal day in the province’s history in a competition which they have graced from the outset.

In need of a break from the frantic pace of neon-lit shopping centres? Kelly O’Brien looks at the rising trend of traditional Christmas markets featuring festive fun and finger-licking food

Hundreds of loyalist protesters, many wearing balaclavas and masks, have begun a fresh protest outside Belfast City Hall.

IT WON’T be long now before Munich’s wintery smells start taking to the nostrils.

ONCE upon a time, they say, the citizens of Cologne did not have to work.

One of the North’s top investigative journalists was beaten up in the centre of Belfast today.

FLAMBOYANT wedding planner ‘Franc’ has been engaged to help attract Christmas shoppers to Cork city.

Ten suspected terrorists, including a man prosecutors claim is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, stand trial in Paris today for a foiled plot to bomb the famed Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve 2000.

Four Algerians accused of plotting to bomb a French Christmas market were today jailed for up to 12 years in Germany.