Motorsport: Losing time off the start line of last night’s opening stage of Rally Sweden, round two of the World Rally Championship, the Irish crew of Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle (Citroen D3 WRC) are outside the top 10 but still only 2.6 seconds off the lead after the completion of the Super Special at Karlstad. Meeke was very relaxed at the stage finish and was looking forward to today’s nine stages.

Police in the North are investigating a robbery at a pharmacy in county Antrim.

A morning of rain contributed to possibly the most eventful race of Christine McMahon’s career.

The penultimate round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship and the final round of the CarryduffForklift Northern Ireland Rally Championship dovetail on tomorrow’s Omagh-based McKelvey Bushwhacker Rally that has attracted 100 entries.

Home are the heroes, a bit later than expected.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Team Ireland on their outstanding performance at the London Paralympic Games.

Competitors in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship and the British Rally Championship will traverse the same stages under their respective banners of the Ulster Rally and Rally Northern Ireland this afternoon.

A16-year-old boy is critically ill with head injuries after he was assaulted near the Ulster Bank in Glengormley in Co Antrim.

A couple are recovering from a night-long tiger kidnap ordeal.

TIME may be running out for Tim McNulty’s rivals to thwart his bid for the Dunlop National Rally Championship title.

A 31-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being shot in the stomach.

Two men have been arrested following a police chase involving a stolen car in north Belfast.

LEAKING gas fumes poisoned two school friends in a seaside apartment as they enjoyed a holiday ahead of exam results.

DEREK McGARRITY could be forgiven for having a sense of déjà vu this weekend as he goes from one circuit to another.

Two elderly women have been left shaken after separate burglaries in the North last night.

A £35m (€38.5m) shopping centre redevelopment in Co Antrim will provide up to 200 permanent jobs, it was revealed today.

THE Tarmac Rally Organisers Association (TROA) meet in Dublin on Sunday against the backdrop of a changing demographic in the Irish Tarmac Championship. The top contenders in the ITC have stated that the series should continue without any dramatic changes.

Four people have been arrested by police in the North in connection with the murder of father-of-four Geoff Kerr.

A teenager has been arrested following a carjacking in Belfast.

Two more men will appear in court today charged with the murder of a leading loyalist during a bitter feud in Belfast nearly a decade ago.

Three more men were arrested today by police investigating the murder of a leading loyalist during a bitter feud in Belfast nearly a decade ago.

Ireland’s medal-winning Paralympic team got a heroes welcome tonight as they touched down on home soil clutching a haul of medals.

Ireland's biggest bookmaker Paddy Power has gambled on securing a slice of the lucrative betting market in the north with a £19m (€24m) takeover of McGranaghan Racing.

A Sinn Féin councillor in the North says she has been informed by the police that she was the target of a recent aborted attack.

The SDLP could see its majorities in three Westminster constituencies cut under Boundary Commission recommendations proposed today.

The North’s Assembly Election campaign will today go up several gears as candidates lodge their nomination papers for the March 7 poll.

Police were under pressure today to catch gangs of armed men robbing pensioners in the North.

A man was arrested today by detectives investigating incendiary bomb attacks by dissident republicans in the North.

The Police Ombudsman in the North is investigating the death of a man in a collision between a car and a police vehicle on the outskirts of north Belfast this morning.

Four youths were being questioned today over clashes at an Orange Order march that left two people injured.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious package planted on board a bus by suspected dissident republicans in Belfast this morning.

Belfast’s four electoral areas could face major expansion under revised plans for new Parliamentary constituencies in the North, it emerged today.

Three police officers were injured during a hit and run incident in Co Antrim, it emerged today.

A number of writers have come together to demand an end to a loyalist campaign of intimidation against one of their colleagues in Belfast.

GEORGE BEST’S home city was united in grief last night.

After the conclusion of the eight stages of the first leg of the Murphy Construction Cork “20” International Rally, Tim McNulty/Anthony Nestor in a Subaru WRC hold a 28 second lead over the Subaru WRC of Derek McGarrity/Dermot O’Gorman.

A man accused of being involved in organised crime has had assets worth £200,000 (€292,600) seized by the North's Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), it emerged today.

Loyalist gunmen opened fire on police and soldiers for a second night running amid ferocious new rioting on the streets of the North.

THIRTY two police officers were injured after loyalist terrorists unleashed one of the "most dangerous riots" across Belfast and beyond, Chief Constable Hugh Orde revealed last night.

A NEW generation in Northern Ireland is being blooded in sectarian hatred, Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said yesterday.

A new generation in the North is being blooded in sectarian hatred, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said today.

Mark Higgins is favourite to claim a third victory on the TOTAL Manx International Rally, which gets

It is still unclear whether Northern Ireland’s largest loyalist terror group can end its involvement in organised crime and paramilitary activity, the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) said today.

There were a number of sectarian attacks overnight in north Belfast, police said today.