A horse racing tradition that has endured, and blossomed, since it first took place in north Cork, in 1752, will be re-enacted on Saturday, Oct 13.

Mike Corcoran, proprietor, Mike’s BBQ & Catering, Spiller’s Lane, Clonakilty.

AS the funeral of Ronan Kerr takes place today, fears mount that a new dissident group may have been behind the murder as no one has claimed responsibility.

WORKERS, customers and supporters of the Quinn group turned out in their thousands in heavy rain yesterday to voice their concern about the threat of job losses at the group’s troubled insurance division.

A man arrested by police investigating the murders of two soldiers in the North has been released unconditionally, police said.

Police investigating the murders of two soldiers in the North arrested a 44-year-old man today.

A water safety warning affecting 220,000 households across the North is likely to last throughout today, officials confirmed.

Police investigating a reported shooting in Co Antrim today said they do not now believe that a shot was fired.

Police today arrested one person after a shot was fired from a legally-held shotgun.

A man has died in a single vehicle crash in Co Tyrone.

The British Government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

The British government must honour commitments to devolve policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont, Gerry Adams insisted today.

GAA president Nickey Brennan has commended those who held an open meeting in Toomebridge, Co Derry last week to voice their opposition to government grants for GAA players.

A man is dead following a crash in Co Antrim.

Strengthening dissident republican terrorists could unleash another Omagh-style bomb atrocity unless the British government intervenes urgently, it was claimed today.

A man has died after crashing his car into a heavily wooded area in Co Antrim.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced fresh demands from nationalists and republicans in Northern Ireland tonight to set a new date for Assembly elections.

Nationalists and republicans on both sides of the Irish border were staging protests over the postponement of elections which should have taken place in Northern Ireland today.

Sinn Fein is to stage protests across Northern Ireland and the Republic against the postponement of the Stormont Assembly Elections, the party announced today.

Motorists across Northern Ireland faced treacherous driving conditions this morning as a result of overnight snow and high winds.

Women in Derry are living in fear of a rapist striking again, it was claimed tonight.

Police are appealing for information after a 16-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted outside a Co Antrim public house.

Investigators believe the Co Antrim fire which claimed the lives of two young sisters was a tragic accident.

Police in the North have named the 12-year-old girl who died in a house fire in Co Antrim yesterday as Ann Marie O’Boyle, from Toomebridge.

Two young girls remain in a critical condition in hospital in the North today following a house fire in Co Antrim yesterday afternoon.

A man has appeared in court in the North today, charged with the unlawful killing of three people, who died in a road accident in Co Antrim on Thursday.

A 40-year-old lorry driver from Derry has been charged with three counts of manslaughter following a fatal road accident in Co Antrim on Thursday.

A lorry driver was being questioned by police today after a crash in which three passengers in a minibus carrying physically and mentally handicapped adults were killed.

Three people are dead following a road traffic accident in the North.

A 21-year-old man has been charged with the rape of a teenage girl in Derry.

Police are to examine close circuit TV recordings in a bid to catch a rapist who struck outside a nightclub near Toomebridge.