A young mother who was involved in a double fatal car crash was over the legal alcohol limit when she drove in the wrong direction on a dual carriageway.

Five men have been arrested over a spate of arson attacks on holiday homes, farms and vehicles in Donegal this summer.

A PSNI air crew who escaped major injury when their helicopter flipped upside down on landing are lucky to be alive, a senior officer said tonight.

Four police personnel were injured today when a helicopter overturned as it took off from the scene of last week’s fatal helicopter crash in the North.

One of the men killed in a helicopter crash in the North was a personal friend of Prince Charles', a spokesperson from his official residence at Clarence House confirmed.

Air accident investigators have arrived at the scene of a helicopter crash that killed three people who were flying from the North to England, police confirmed tonight.

Police will today confirm the number of people killed in a helicopter crash in the North with several feared dead in the tragedy.

There are fears tonight that up to four people may have been killed in a helicopter crash in the North

Counselling was being offered tonight to the school friends of a 10-year-old boy who was rescued from a river but died later in hospital.

A 10-year-old boy who was rescued from a river in the North has died in hospital, police said today.

A man has died following a single-vehicle road crash in Newry yesterday evening.

The British Government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

The British government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

BE careful not to bring any horse-loving children with you when you visit Foxbrook... they won’t let you leave without buying it.

MICHAEL LINEHAN from Blarney, Co. Cork took the major prize, the O’Gorman Cup, when his Check It Out proved too good for J. & C. O’Keeffe’s (Glantane) Toureen Town in the Milford Open yesterday.

WIZARD weaved his magic to claim Corn Na Feile at Abbeyfeale yesterday.

THERE was a major upset in the final of the all-aged Ballyarthur Stakes at Fermoy and Grange yesterday when the Bill Toomey trained Carraignagour took the prize.

Police in the North are investigating a fatal hit-and-run near Hilltown in Co Down in the early hours of this morning.

Kevin Barry takes a break next week from his duties on the Ballydoyle gallops to focus on the National coursing meeting in Clonmel. Colm O'Connor reports.

OOMPA LUMPA, owned in partnership by well known English punter Harry Finlay and Skibbereen’s Denis O'Driscoll, landed the Rakes Of Mallow all-aged stake when coming from behind to take the turn by two lengths from Run Like Baros at a very well run meeting at Ballymagooly yesterday.

KARAKATTA HILL won the Premier Cup at Templetuohy yesterday, flooring by two lengths the odds laid on the Kevin Barry trained Musical Hill.

THE flying Droopys Caesar (Hilltown-Fiery Lucy) has been temporarily grounded for a spell at stud in the Dunphy kennels in Portlaw, Co. Waterford.

THERE was double delight for John Condon at the Cappoquin, Clogheen & District coursing meeting yesterday.

WHY YOU MONTY, winner of the Local Stake at Rathcormac last season, was a decisive winner of the Ballyarthur Stake, the All-Aged event, at a well run Fermoy & Grange coursing meeting yesterday.

IT’S hard to get a handle on how big Cnó Capaill is until you see it — and that’s big, as in impressive, not in a look-at-me kind of way.

PAT DALY of Ballinhassig, Co. Cork will have one of the leading fancies for the Boyle Bookmakers Derby at Clonmel in February following the success of his impressive puppy Judicial Castlelu in the final of the Patsy Byrne Corn na Féile Derby at Abbeyfeale.

IT was a day of surprises at the Cork Cup meeting at Blarney yesterday with Rusheen Hannah, the property of Master Brendan and Miss Irene O’Callaghan of Macroom, and trained by Liam O’Callaghan, taking the Cork Cup in surprise fashion.

Surely the people in Monkstown, Cobh, Ringaskiddy and Carrigaline are as important as the livestock in the Golden Vale.