Garda decisions to cancel leave and ease stringent controls on overtime in Co Louth reflect the “seriousness and urgency” of the situation in Drogheda, senior officers have said.

More than a dozen homes had to be evacuated after two pipe bombs were discovered on a housing estate in Drogheda.

Their motto is “dare to dream”, and, despite the disappointing scoreline, the thousands of Northern Ireland supporters literally danced out of the fan zone in Belfast.

Many Irishmen working in England at the outbreak of World War 1 enlisted in English regiments. One was Thomas Kedian, of Moneymore, Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, my grand-uncle. 

The Army Bomb Disposal Team has made safe an explosive device that was found outside a house in Drogheda in Co Louth earlier.

A viable device has been found outside a house in Co. Louth.

Gardaí investigating a shooting incident in Drogheda have arrested a 19-year-old man.

Gardaí in county Louth are appealing for witnesses to a shooting incident in Drogheda yesterday evening.

A 35-year-old man has been taken to hospital following a shooting incident in Drogheda this evening.

Gardaí in Co Louth are asking the public to help them locate a missing 33-year-old man.

A school bus carrying 28 pupils veered off the road in Northern Ireland today, police said.

TWO Derry footballers were in court for being involved in a pub brawl in Galway city after their team’s defeat in the recent semi-finals of the Celebrity Bainisteoir television series.

Police in the North are investigating the sudden death of a 23-year-old woman from Cavan who died in Antrim Area Hospital after attending a music festival.

Two men charged over a £1m (€1.2m) cannabis seizure in the North were members of a highly organised criminal gang, police claimed in court today.

SIX charges against former Ireland international soccer player Gary Kelly were struck out at Drogheda district court yesterday after the judge was told by the alleged victims they did not want to proceed with their complaints.

FORMER Ireland international soccer player Gary Kelly appeared before Drogheda District Court yesterday to face charges of trespass with intent to commit criminal damage.

Two men were arrested after drugs worth £11,000 (€13,000) were seized when police raided six properties in the North.

A 26-year-old woman has died in a two-car collision in Co Galway today.

Two people have been killed in a two-car collision in Co. Derry this afternoon, near the town of Moneymore.

Two police officers were disciplined for failings in handling the case of an Indian man killed in the North, it emerged today.

The jury in the trial of a man accused of attempted murder has heard from a second witness who has said they had difficulty remembering the incident.

The funeral of three brothers killed in a devastating house fire will take place today.

A minute's silence will be observed in Co. Louth later following the death of three family members in a house fire in Drogheda yesterday.

It has emerged that the three victims of this morning's house fire in Co. Louth were eight, 16 and 21 years of age and all from the same family.

Three members of one family were killed in a house fire today.

At least three people have been confirmed dead following a house fire in Drogheda, Co Louth, this morning.

Five people were feared dead after a house fire today.

A man was charged today with murdering pregnant mother-of-four Jean Quigley.

A man has died following an accident on a farm in Co Derry yesterday evening.

A man died after an accident at a farm in Co Derry.

A man was immersed in bath water and had petrol poured over him during a terrifying armed robbery in Co Tyrone, it emerged today.

A convicted Louth sex offender has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a 57-year-old man whom he claimed sexually molested his girlfriend while they slept rough on a Dublin street.

A policewoman has died after her armoured Land Rover patrol vehicle crashed in the North today.

Crude graffiti has been daubed on walls as part of a new offensive by loyalists to drive Catholics out of a troubled south Belfast area, it emerged today.