Eighteen people are being treated after toxic gas used to kill rodents escaped from a ship docked at a harbour in the North.

All League and Championship matches in Derry have been called off this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of referee Martin Mulholland.

GAA President Christy Cooney has offered his condolences to the family of Patrick Dinsmore who collapsed and died while playing minor football for St. Peter's GAA Club in County Down last Sunday morning.

A man shot dead today may have been murdered in a growing drugs dispute.

A Northern Ireland Assembly member today condemned as reckless a gunman who launched an attack in a bar which wounded a man and a woman.