A search for the body of a 21-year-old man with special needs, murdered and secretly buried by republicans almost 40 years ago, started today in a seaside village in the North.

A new state-of-the-art lifeboat is to be stationed at Red Bay on the Co Antrim coast, the RNLI announced today.

The stranded Portrush lifeboat was pulled off the rocks on Rathlin Island today.

Around 140,000 young salmon have been killed off the coast of Northern Ireland by a huge group of jellyfish, producers said tonight.

The air and sea search for a 60-year-old Dublin sailor has been called off.

A major land, air and sea search is underway off the Co Antrim coast after an unmanned yacht was found drifting.