A young woman and a three-year-old boy jumped from a first-floor window after a man armed with a bat attacked a house in Co Tyrone.

Police in the North are investigating separate stabbings in Derry and Tyrone overnight.

Voting is continuing in the final hour of this year’s General Election.

Two men have been arrested by police investigating the discovery of an improvised mortar bomb in Northern Ireland.

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

A Cork-made documentary recalls Éamon de Valera’s eventful trip to the US to drum up support for Irish independence, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

A number of homes have been evacuated following a security alert in Co Tyrone.

The teenager's father said he was "a bit shaken up" following the incident and was now looking forward to coming home.

42 schools built by Western Building Systems were found to have structural defects.

Health Minister Simon Harris does not have the power to stop the firm at the centre of the school building controversy from building a new hospital unit.

Education Minister Joe McHugh has insisted all schools caught up in year-long fire safety and structural concerns will re-open this August - despite admitting work is still taking place on more than a dozen facilities.

The Government has admitted almost half of the schools found last year to have serious fire and structural safety problems will still not have the faults repaired by the start of the new school year.

The Department of Education has admitted it was forced to breach EU procurement rules over appointing a contractor to carry out remediation works to 22 schools found to have structural flaws last year.

The incident happened on the Clanabogan Road in Omagh.

Adventure holidays are the way to go as parents seek means of entertaining social media generation kids, writes David Gordon.

In late July and on through August, on the biggest days of the GAA calendar — when all other space is filled — the Nally Terrace will be home to the GAA supporters who are unable to get tickets for anywhere else in Croke Park.

A number of shots were fired at a house in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.

A man whose horse was destroyed by a county council over unpaid impounding fees did not accept the animal was found wandering on a public road, the High Court has heard.

The west Cork hotspot was announced as the winner today while also being named as winner in the Best Kept Small Town category.

Irish mineral exploration company Arkle Resources could dilute its share in the highly-rated Stonepark zinc project in Limerick.

A 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of membership of a proscribed organisation.

The so-called New IRA which admitted killing journalist and activist Lyra McKee during a night of riots in Derry’s Creggan estate may have announced its formation in July 2012, but its origins stretch back five years earlier, writes Dieter Reinisch

The men are due before Omagh Magistrates Court in Co Tyrone later today.

Police in the North have concluded that 619 people were in the queue or car park on the night of the crush at a disco in Cookstown.

Fond tributes have been paid to the victims of a St Patrick's Day party crush as their school friends gathered for a day of funerals.

So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

PSNI detectives investigating the deaths of three teenagers at a Co Tyrone disco have arrested two men on suspicion of manslaughter.

Police and prosecutors made the pledge in an effort to get more teenagers to come forward to speak to officers about the tragedy.

As any parent who ever watched a teenage son or daughter tip their toe into the grown-up world, some degree of apprehension is unavoidable.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Whether it’s for health reasons or a lifestyle choice, quitting alcohol has become a mindful movement.

Last weekend’s car bomb outside Derry’s courthouse raises questions about dissident republicanism and the threat it still poses, writes David Young.

Update 5.40pm: A security alert in the village of Moygashel, Co. Tyrone has now ended.

As weekends go, this was as good as it gets for Irish athletics: Two medals, five athletes, and one bright future ahead.

Visitor accommodation is at a premium as a West Cork town gears up for the arrival of some 1,500 musicians and hundreds more friends, guests and fans of the popular South of Ireland Band Championships.

Three men arrested after the discovery of a viable explosive device in Co Tyrone have been released.

A disabled Northern Irish man says he no longer feels safe in his own home after two men broke in, wrecked his home, tied him to a chair and set his trousers on fire.

An ex-republican paramilitary, wanted for a murder in Co Tyrone almost 20 years ago, has lost his latest legal challenge to being extradited North.

The Tricolour has been banned from the official St Patrick's Day celebrations in Strabane in Co Tyrone.

They say that the ‘hair of the dog’ is the best cure for a hangover — but one distraught dog-lover also found it the best cure for loneliness.

Officials have granted full planning permission for an electricity line between Northern Ireland and the Republic at a cost of over €200m.

Cowards who prompted a bomb alert near a cenotaph in Northern Ireland are sickening, the PSNI said.

Police in the North are investigating a shop fire in Co Tyrone.

The Charleton tribunal has heard details of threats made against the life of whistleblower Garda Keith Harrison in October 2013.