A family have escaped injury during a fire in Co Down.

Health and safety inspectors are investigating the death of a 10-year-old boy on a farm in the North.

Bank of Ireland is to close nine branches across Northern Ireland in the coming months, but also plans to invest £10m (€12m) in revamping its remaining business in the North.

Cork actress Maxine Linehan is in a better position than most to channel the spirit of Charlotte Brontë.

A photographer who posted offensive messages on Facebook following the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius has left her newspaper job.

More than 1,000 litres of illegal fuel were removed today from a filling station in Co Antrim.

The family of a boy who died after he was hit by a speedboat in the North tonight said they were devastated.

A six-year-old boy struck by a speedboat at a beach in County Down on Monday has died in hospital.

Police in the North are appealing for witnesses to an assault in Co Down at the weekend.

A fire station in the North gutted in an overnight blaze was not fitted with smoke alarms, officials confirmed today.

Investigators are today trying to determine the cause of an overnight blaze that destroyed a fire station.

A £1m (€1.2m) initiative to build better relations in 30 mixed neighbourhoods across the North was launched today.

A policewoman is at the centre of a £750,000 (€1.1bn) Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) investigation in the North, it was revealed tonight.

Horses and a petrol station lease have been seized in a new crackdown on alleged fuel smugglers in the North, it was revealed today.

You just can’t keep firebrand Colin Farrell far from the headlines, no matter how hard you might try.

The British army have confirmed plans to shut down another military base in Northern Ireland.

PRIMARILY because of the current unpopularity of US foreign policy, the focus on President George W Bush’s Irish visit, unfortunately, was on security rather than welcome, but let us again consider his Irish connections.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

FOUR women and a man were killed when two cars collided head-on in Newry, Co Down, early yesterday.

Three women killed in a car crash which also claimed the lives of a brother and sister had been on their way home from the Special Olympics in Dublin, it emerged tonight.

Four women and a man were killed when two cars collided head-on in Newry, Co Down, early today, police said.