The Army Bomb Disposal Team have made safe an explosive device in Kildare this evening.

Second place for Connor McCloskey in today's Townparks Glens of Antrim Rally was enough to win the Pacenotes Northern Ireland Rally Championship.

A RECORD number of planning applications have been received in the last week by Cork County Council, signalling a boom start to 2006.

Gardaí have named the three men who were killed in separate road accidents since yesterday.