The Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman is appealing for witnesses after a teenage girl was knocked down and killed following a night out.

Pat Gilroy’s new-look Dublin ended a mixed weekend on a high note with a big win over Antrim to move confidently through to the last four of the Bord na Mona Walsh Cup.

Here’s a handy game-by-game guide to the 2018 leagues and championships.

Second-half goals from Conor Carson and Nigel Elliot secured a hard-earned 2-14 to 1-12 victory for Antrim over Roscommon in their Christy Ring Cup Round 2A encounter in Dunloy on Saturday.

Derry 2-19 Down 1-15

A Co Antrim school has brought in trained counsellors to help children and staff cope with the death of an eight-year-old boy.

A 10-year old boy has died and his father is fighting for his life after they were overcome by slurry fumes, sources said.

Relatives wept as former Ireland rugby star David Tweed was jailed for eight years for a catalogue of child sex abuse.

Almost 150 jobs are to go as the fallout from the collapse of one of Northern Ireland’s biggest construction companies continues.

Dublin defender Tomás Brady is set to miss his side's Leinster SHC opener against Offaly later this month after injurying his knee.

Antrim senior hurler Neil McManus believes that all hurling teams from his county should get to participate at their respective grades in the Leinster Championship.

The GAA All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was launched today at the Dunloy GAA club in the Glens of Antrim by GAA President Christy Cooney.

A depressive father hugged his young son and told him how he wanted him to grow up the day before he lay down in front of a train and killed himself, an inquest heard today.

A body was found on a train line in Co Antrim, police said today.

Two men have been killed in separate road crashes in the North.

Antrim 3-11 Wexford 1-10, Dunloy

DERVAL O’ROURKE will follow a familiar path when she concludes her preparations for the world championships in Germany over the weekend.

A priest who braved attacks on his home to say Mass at Harryville during the loyalist protests has died.

A senior Democratic Unionist tonight rejected claims by Gerry Adams that his party did nothing to help deliver peaceful Twelfth of July Orange Order marches.

Republicans have been blamed after an Orange Hall was destroyed by fire today.

Tens of thousands of Orangemen will parade in the North as the loyalist marching season reached its July 12 height today.

In the North, Portadown Orangemen have been banned from walking along the Garvahy Road for the second year running.

WISER, more experienced and not exactly lacking in confidence - that is Portumna's approach to Sunday's AIB All-Ireland club hurling semi-final against holders James Stephens in Semple Stadium.

A man was tonight charged in Northern Ireland with acting as a gangmaster.

Three men were arrested today by police who suspect them of abducting a man from a Co Antrim village pub at the weekend and assaulting him.

Northern Ireland’s most senior policeman Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde today rejected claims by unionists that his officers were failing to be even handed when policing parades protests.

Loved by some, disparaged by others: few can dispute Mo Mowlam had a massive impact on the North, writes Dan McGinn

When Mo Mowlam became Northern Ireland Secretary, she may well have had her hero Winston Churchill in mind – and his declaration that history would be kind to him because he intended to write it.

Two republican protests were cleared off roads in Belfast and Dunloy this afternoon to allow Orange parades to take place.

Riot police moved into a village today as a new stand-off developed between Orangemen and nationalist protesters in Northern Ireland.

A man was remanded in custody today accused of attempted murder after a train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned on a level crossing.

A 21-year-old man was charged with attempted murder today following a rail crash in which a car was allegedly abandoned deliberately on the track.

THREE people were being questioned last night after a train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned on a level crossing.

Two people were being questioned today after a train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned on a crossing.

A driver’s skills may have saved lives after his train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned at a crossing in the North, police claimed today.

Police in Co Antrim are searching for two people suspected of deliberately trying to derail a train near Ballymoney last night.

The Parades Commission has imposed severe restrictions on an Orange Order march due to take place in Co Antrim village of Dunloy on Easter Sunday.

The world of Irish sport today paid tribute to one of rugby’s rising stars, John McCall, at his funeral in Armagh.

In Dunloy, they speak of the teams who almost made it — and vow not to be one of them.Mark Gallagher visited the Antrim village where hurling is king.

FOR ALL those in the deep south who believe the All-Ireland club hurling final in Croke Park today is more or less a foregone conclusion, that the honest physical endeavour of the Antrim champions Dunloy will succumb to the pacy, cultured hurling of Newtownshandrum — a word of warning from one who should know.

CONOR CUNNING is a bit of an outsider in the Dunloy team. Well not outsider exactly — when you come from a Catholic village of a little over 1,000 people in north Antrim, you can’t really be an outsider. Particularly if you happen to be a hurler.

SOUTH meets North in the AIB Club Hurling final, from one end of the country to the other.