Unionist political and community leaders in Northern Ireland were today told to do more to tackle racial attacks in their areas.

Gardaí have issued an appeal for witnesses to an accident which claimed the lives of two people in Co Donegal.

Police in the North are searching for a missing teenager who is believed to have travelled south of the border.

It has emerged that the man who died in a road accident in Donegal suffered a heart attack at the wheel.

A man has died in a road accident in Co Donegal this morning.

A post mortem will be carried out this afternoon on the body of a man found in Belfast.

Police in the North are investigating the death of a man in Belfast.

Two men were arrested today after firearms and ammunition were found during police searches in south Belfast.

Police in the North have revealed that a 19-year-old girl who was raped in Belfast at the weekend was a student from the Republic.

A member of the North’s police service was knocked down by a stolen car in South Belfast earlier today.

Two students are being treated for multiple serious injuries after being attacked with sledgehammers off Belfast’s Donegal Road.