A newlywed mum from Donegal who has had a baby with her wife in the UK has been denied an Irish passport for her 11-week-old son because of her gender.

NIB branch managers admitted to the High Court inspectors that bogus non-resident accounts were widespread across the bank’s network, resulting in large-scale tax evasion between 1988 and 1996.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has been ordered to appear at the North's High Court as part of a multi-million pound civil action by relatives of Omagh bomb victims.

STORMONT Agriculture Minister Brid Rodgers is to stand down from the Northern Ireland Assembly at the next election.