Two women had a lucky escape when they became trapped in their car after driving into floodwaters in Co Clare yesterday.

THEY’VE probably heard all the George Clooney jokes you could mention — but fame by coincidence of name is a fate that Clooney, near Quin in Co Clare will have to put up with.

Rival gangs are arranging sectarian clashes in Belfast city centre's so-called "neutral zone", university researchers revealed today.

A pipe bomb was defused in the front garden of a house in Derry today.