As National Tree Week approaches, plant experts share fact and folklore with Rita de Brún.

Police in the North are being accused of dropping their guard in trying to stop attacks against Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) staff.

There is something obsessive about wanting to go to such an island as Potato Island. Why would anyone want to go there? Then why would anyone not want to go there?

A man has been arrested in Co Fermanagh on suspicion of the attempted murder of an off-duty PSNI officer.

Fr Brian D’Arcy was born nearEnniskillen, Co Fermanagh in 1945.

Gardaí have made four further arrests in relation to the abduction of Kevin Lunney.

Three men have been arrested in Athlone and a number weapons have been seized by gardaí.

More than 40 countries were represented at the service, and officials laid wreaths at the Irish military plot before The Last Post was played and the Irish flag was returned to full mast.

A Minister of State has said that senior gardaí on the border let down directors at Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH).

President Michael D Higgins will attend a Remembrance Sunday ceremony at St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin this afternoon.

THE savagery of the capture and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin Lunney has been brought home to us in his harrowing account broadcast by the BBC Spotlight programme on Tuesday evening.

The threat follows last month's abduction and torture of Quinn director Kevin Lunney, who is still recovering from his injuries.

The Garda's security chief talks to Cormac O'Keeffe about dissidents, Brexit and the jihadist threat.

Joe Dermody looks at the people who made moves in business this week.

Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

The Taoiseach has branded the abduction and beating of businessman Kevin Lunney as “cowardly and brutal”.

Details of the lucky escape have been published in a report released by the Air Accident Investigation Branch.

The poor benighted Douglas village in Cork has been in the wars once more, flooded not too many years ago and now recovering from a fresh trauma in the wake of the terrible fire that has left the Douglas Shopping centre temporarily closed.

Transport Minister Shane Ross has warned that a hard border on the back of a disorderly Brexit could provoke bomb attacks.

The lads and lasses in the modern media industry use Freedom Of Information requests to obtain those rationed-out facts and figures which our politicians and civil servants above in Leinster House know well will do them no harm at all in the eyes of the electorate.

The device exploded close to Wattle Bridge at around 10.35am after bomb disposal experts had defused a larger device in the area.

The booby-trap bomb in Co Fermanagh, near the Cavan border, led the PSNI to say dissident groups were showing an “increased capability”, which it describing as “extremely worrying”.

Though nobody has claimed the weekend bomb attack on the North’s police, it has all the hallmarks of republicans, says Dieter Reinisch.

It is not too hard to imagine that a certain kind of Irish person might squirm or, in extremis, shout at the TV when one of the Edwardians driving Brexit makes yet another statement that underlines their willful ignorance of our shared history.

An explosive device has detonated in Co Fermanagh as police and British Army bomb disposal officers were searching the area.

Look, we know what it’s like in Croke Park at half-time of a major game.

In the north, a woman is in a serious condition after being rescued from a lake in Co Fermanagh last night.

Commissioner Harris,who has 35 years' service as a police officer, has been awarded the Queen's Police Medal for his services in Northern Ireland.

One of Jim McGuinness’s first tasks when he finally landed the role of Donegal senior manager heading into the Baltic winter of 2010 was to cobble together a backroom team.

Damage to perishable foods caught in port delays will be an early negative consequence of a no-deal Brexit, said Phil Hogan, EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development.

An ATM has been stolen in Co Fermanagh.

None of the four passengers in the back seat of a car which crashed yesterday, claiming the lives of two young people, were wearing seatbelts.

A 27-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering four people, including a baby, in a fire.

A fourth body, believed to be that of a young child, has been found by police investigating a fire that killed three other people in Co Fermanagh earlier this week.

Gary Douglas was found dead in his SUV on Tuesday.

Police in the North have issued a photograph of a mother who died during a family boating holiday there.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has laid a laurel wreath at the site of an IRA Remembrance Sunday bombing in the North.

Relatives whose loved ones were killed in the Enniskillen bombing have vowed to keep their memories alive and continue fighting for justice, on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity.

Detectives investigating a fatal road crash have charged a man with manslaughter.

Latest: A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Natasha Carruthers in Fermanagh.

A woman in her 20s has died in a road accident in Co Fermanagh.

A man caught up in a boating accident which claimed the life of a woman in Co Fermanagh has left hospital after treatment.

Health chiefs are trying to find new beds for about 40 residents of a care home which has been shut down by inspectors.