Two teenage men have died after their car hit a wall in Co Down.

If controversy is the best publicity, then Anne Chamber’s upcoming book on TK Whitaker has got off to a good start — thanks in no small part to Charles Haughey.

Claire McGowan wanted to be a writer from the age of nine but never imagined she could do it for a living and so filled her days teaching and travelling. She tells Caroline O’Doherty about how she realised her dream.

One of the people killed when a helicopter crashed in thick fog in the UK was Northern Irish businessman Eddie Haughey, according to reports.

FORMER five-times Irish Tarmac champion Eugene Donnelly is a dramatic late entry for next week’s Westlodge Hotel Fastnet Rally in Bantry.

THE busy South Cork guild at Innishannon got the past year off to an altruistic start with two whist card drives which raised proceeds for the Bandon Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and Rehab.

OWNERS of a nursing home closed over the weekend by court order are to ask a judge today to restrain the dispersal of residents “all over the place” while the initial closure is legally challenged.

WE were naive to imagine that the scandal surrounding Leas Cross Nursing Home meant we need not be so fearful about how older people, our parents, maybe uncles or aunts, maybe neighbours or friends, might be abused in a nursing home.

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.

A man was arrested today in connection with a 500lb car bomb abandoned near a busy motorway in the North.

South Down MP Margaret Ritchie is to demand talks with police after Protestant youths were blamed for what was initially described as a dissident republican armed checkpoint.

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.

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

The funeral has taken place of the Co Down teenager who collapsed and died during a GAA match at the weekend.

GAA President Christy Cooney has offered his condolences to the family of Patrick Dinsmore who collapsed and died while playing minor football for St. Peter's GAA Club in County Down last Sunday morning.

A teenage Gaelic footballer who collapsed and died during a match in Co Down was due to get his GCSE exam results tomorrow, his 17th birthday.

A teenage GAA player collapsed and died during a minor football match in Co Down last night.

DURING the last decade of decadence anyone who visited an airport at this time of the year was almost certain to bump into a county squad destined for the sunny climes of the continent.

The leader of a group of Irish charity workers caught up in a horrific bus crash in Kenya said the experience had not deterred the team from carrying out their job.

Police in the North today issued a fresh appeal for witnesses to an horrific crash in which four officers died.

Passers-by who tried in vain to rescue four policemen trapped in their burning 4x4 vehicle in the North were commended for their bravery today.

Police in the North appealed for witnesses tonight after a 20-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in Rostrevor.

Armed robbers made off with a substantial sum of money yesterday evening after threatening staff at a post office.

Police in the North have charged five people with attempted murder and robbery following an attack on two men in Co Down earlier this week.

The dissident republican terrorists suspected of planting a bomb at the home of millionaire tycoon Lord Ballyedmond near the Irish border in Co Louth were today branded cowards by a Northern Ireland Office Minister.

SAYIT Travel and Kumuka have added a new range of Asia family tours to their portfolio.

PRESIDENT Mary McAleese is selling her luxury five-bedroom townhouse for almost €900,000.

A CRIMINAL gang which dumped 30,000 litres of toxic waste after ‘laundering’ diesel is estimated to have made more than €1 million from the operation.

The Police Ombudsman's office in the North has appealed for information about an incident last Sunday in which a man drowned in Carlingford Lough.

The Health Service Executive is due to make a fresh effort to close down a controversial Dublin nursing home in the local District Court today.

Gardaí have named the 38-year-old man who died as a result of a collision in Co Westmeath on Monday night as Aidan Martin of Clara Road, Sligo.

GROWTH in traffic and the spread in new housing on the city’s fringes and beyond has given an added value to inner suburban city homes.

A light aircraft travelling from Prestwick in Scotland to Kerry has had to make an emergency landing in Co Down.

Police in the North have arrested four people in connection with alleged fraud in the construction industry.

An air and sea search was mounted off the Northern Ireland coast today for a man missing after a fishing boat capsized and sank.