After years of searching and tinkering by Pete McGrath, Peter Withnell proved the final piece in the puzzle that brought Down to the 1991 All-Ireland football title.

A school group have been rescued from the Mourne Mountains after a number of them developed hypothermia when the weather deteriorated.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

He may not have enjoyed his two days’ play at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open but Rory McIlroy had got his missed cut out of his system by Sunday to declare the tournament he hosted an incredible success.

Rory McIlroy will put his money where his mouth is when he tees off at Royal County Down this morning by pledging to donate any prize money he earns at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open to his charity.

World No. 1 Rory McIlroy looked assured of scoring a points victory over newest rival Jordan Spieth on the second day of the lucrative Players Championship at Ponte Vedre Beach in Florida.

The combined pulling power of Rory McIlroy and entrepreneur Dermot Desmond should ensure new WGC-Cadillac Championship winner Dustin Johnson will compete in this year’s Irish Open.

A retired couple have been found dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at a caravan park in the North.

IRISH literature, myth and legend inspired the Westerness series by the celebrated Northern Irish painter Colin Middleton (1910-1983).

Rory McIlroy has opened a new support centre for children with cancer and vowed to see it replicated elsewhere.

Rory McIlroy has opened a new support centre for children with cancer in the North and vowed to see it replicated elsewhere.

I concur with your editorial (September 13) of the late Ian Paisley whose political career was punctuated with nakedly sectarian acts and deeds and the destruction of many political initiatives and moderate leaders of unionism who were engaged in genuine attempts to bring peace and stability to Northern Ireland.

EVERY week, another report surfaces which establishes that the more time you spend on Facebook or Twitter, the more likely you are to be an unhappy, nail-biting paranoid.

LOUGH GUR HERITAGE CENTRE

DRIMOLEAGUE HERITAGE LOOP WALK

Practical mixes with beautiful this week as Esther N McCarthy runs in tune with the seasons and starts getting organised for autumn’s embrace.

With my reputation?

The Department of Agriculture in the North has defended its decision to stand-down air support providing emergency relief to stricken farmers.

CARLINGFORD, Co Louth, is a small and particularly beautiful village situated in the extreme north-east corner of our little Republic — the very place, in fact, where you can see the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea.

STANDING at the foot of Slieve Donard shows why the Mourne Mountains are credited as the inspiration for writer CS Lewis’ magical land of Narnia.

EARLY this morning, many of Ireland’s Olympic hopefuls gathered at the Tollymore National Outdoor Centre on the edge of the Mourne Mountains.

THERE’S something afoot.

A Second World War mortar has been made safe in the Mourne Mountains in Co Down.

Forty soldiers are supporting fire crews in Donegal as they battle wildfires for a sixth day.

The outbreak of wildfires raging across Ireland because of the lengthy dry spell is unprecedented, according to fire chiefs.

A man was reportedly seen with a petrol can close to one of the worst gorse fires for years in the Mourne Mountains, police said today.

Arsonists blamed for gorse fires that sparked a major alert in the Mourne Mountains should face jail, it has been claimed.

Firefighters on both sides of the border are this morning tackling three gorse fires which have broken out in counties Donegal, Mayo and Down.

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.

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

Down’s innate sense of their own worth comes from schools success – and nowhere is more pronounced than in St Colman’s in Newry. Brendan O’Brien paid a visit to the home of the All-Ireland SFC colleges champions

STEVEN King’s version of recent political history in Northern Ireland, on the circumstances surrounding the resignation from office of former prime minister Terence O’Neill is at variance with fact (‘North needs an election to purge system on the brink of breakdown’, November 25)

A young man who went missing on the Mourne Mountains in Co Down yesterday has been found safe and well.

Rescuers in the North have mounted a search for a young man reported missing in the Mourne Mountains in Co Down.

The mountainous landscape where a light aircraft crashed with the loss of three lives in south Down must be the subject of a safety probe, the Assembly heard today.

JUST two years old, Silver Beach is unexpectedly up for sale: it was its owners’ dream project.

Search teams who launched a major operation to find a missing 53-year-old have discovered a man’s body.

A major search operation is continuing in Co. Down for a man who has been missing for three days.

A French tourist has gone missing while walking in the Mourne Mountains, police said today.

A man had to be airlifted to hospital today after suffering chest pains during a hike in the Mourne Mountains.

Eight people were rescued today when the North was hit by torrential rain.

A group of campers were rescued from the Mourne Mountains today after their camp was washed out by torrential rain.

A mountain fire that ran for several miles is believed to have been started deliberately, it was revealed today.