DUNLOP National Rally champion, Tim McNulty will receive the Vard Memorial Trophy at the National Rally Championship awards ceremony at the Clayton Hotel, Galway tomorrow night.

A mother and her young daughter and baby had a lucky escape after their car was trapped in a river swollen by heavy rain in Co Derry.

A trip to Britain, probably Perth next month, is on the cards for Esporao following his all-the-way win in the opening Down District Council Ladies Day At Downpatrick Maiden Hurdle on the Co Down track yesterday.

TEAMS will tackle six stages in Co Antrim this afternoon in their respective opening legs of the Todds Leap Ulster Rally and the Todds Leap International Rally Northern Ireland, part of the Irish Tarmac Rally and Dulux Trade British Rally championships.

VETERAN trainer Cecil Ross savoured the first double of his training career when favourites Lisrenny Lady and Son Of My Heart, both ridden by Robbie Colgan, landed the opening maiden hurdles at Sligo last night.

SOME of the most renowned stages in Irish rallying, like Moll’s Gap, Caragh Lake and those in the Béara Peninsula, are the principal reason Tim McNulty opted to compete in this weekend’s Cartell.ie Killarney International Rally of the Lakes, the third round of the Irish Tarmac Championship, instead of last week’s Circuit of Ireland Rally.

MICHAELA Harte will never be forgotten, a mourner at her funeral said.

Michaela McAreavey will never be forgotten, a mourner at her funeral said today.

AN enterprising, front-running ride by Andrew McNamara enabled Fearnwood Girl land the featured Irish Stallion Farms Novice Hurdle at Sligo yesterday.

ANDREW McNamara doubled-up on Equation and her former stable-companion Fearnwood Girl in last night’s maiden hurdle action in Sligo.

The body of a man has been recovered from a car in a river in the North.

Firefighters in Co Derry have succeeded in controlling a massive fire that has burned through 40 acres of forest since yesterday afternoon.

Firefighters are today continuing to tackle a forest blaze in Co Derry covering an area the size of 60 football pitches.

A man has collapsed and died after being evacuated from a burning factory in Co Derry last night.

Police bungled the inquiry into a terrorist attack in Northern Ireland dogged by allegations that officers tried to influence a forensic expert, a new report revealed today.

Preparations are underway for this year's Glasgowbury event in Draperstown, Co Derry.

An extra 2,000 police officers have been called in to protect tomorrow’s election to the Northern Ireland Assembly amid fears of new terror attacks.

A man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder following a gun attack on a polling station in Northern Ireland on the day of the general election.

Two men are being questioned by the RUC about a gun attack on a polling station in which two officers and a woman were injured.

Northern Secretary John Reid has described last night's gun attack on a polling station in County Derry as "an attack on democracy".