Weapons and ammunition found in a car in Armagh were not intended to kill anybody, a court heard today.

Some areas of Galway continue to be without water today, particularly on the West side of the city.

Two men have escaped an alleged abduction attempt after the car they were in crashed in Derry, it has emerged today.

Pipe bombs were thrown into two parked cars in Derry, police said.

In the North, the fire service is at the scene of a blaze at a premises in Larne containing a number of gas cylinders.

HEAVY rain caused traffic chaos around the country last night with flooding making many roads impassable.

A Derry pensioner was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack yards from his home, an inquest heard today.

Police in the North have arrested a man and a woman in connection with the shooting of an off-duty PSNI officer in Co Tyrone last night.

Dissident republicans are being blamed for the shooting of an off-duty PSNI officer in the North yesterday evening.

Police in Belfast were tonight hunting for a middle aged man who attempted to abduct a teenage girl from a street in broad daylight.

A senior loyalist has been shot in the face in east Belfast.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl had a miraculous escape when drive-by gunmen in Northern Ireland sprayed the car she was a passenger in with bullets, killing prominent loyalist Stephen Warnock.

A loyalist paramilitary drug dealer was shot dead in Northern Ireland today when a gunman opened fire as his terrified child looked on.

A man has been killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in the North.

A bus driver has received 25 stitches to his head and body after being slashed with a knife during an attempted robbery in Northern Ireland.

A murder inquiry was launched today after a pensioner who was stabbed almost two months ago died in hospital.