Serial killer Stephen Port has been found guilty in the UK of murdering three young gay men to fulfil his depraved sexual fantasies.

A sex fiend drugged and murdered four young men he met on gay networking sites such as Grindr, a court in England has heard.

For years the smell of pipe tobacco acted as a kind of GPS that told you you were in the vicinity of M&P O’Sullivan, the cosy tobacco shop on Academy St in Cork City.

Police in the North are questioning two men after separate knife attacks in counties Antrim and Down.

A 41-year-old man is expected to appear at Belfast magistrates court this morning charged with eight counts of attempted murder.