Down County, Northern Ireland News

A Co Donegal man has appeared in court charged with the murder of four soldiers in the 1982 Hyde Park bomb in London.

Exactly 15 years ago - May 22 1998 - voters went to the polls to vote yes or no for the Good Friday Agreement.

Four men have been jailed over a blackmail plot in which a couple were threatened with paramilitary attack if they did not hand over A 15,000 in cash.

Talks due to take place in Belfast will address how to move NI's peace process forward, 15 years on from the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.

The Children's Commissioner has hit out at police for their latest campaign, which she says portrays young people as anti-social thugs.

The second session at the all day PSA/Fellowship of Messines workshop - Has the Protestant Working Class lost out in the Peace Process? - looked back at some of the events and experiences that shaped loyalism.

A County Armagh company has won a contract for more than A 1m to work on six of the football pitches to be used during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The former Northern Ireland Office minister Sir Richard Needham has said he is devastated after a fire destroyed his family's ancestral home in County Down.

A 'peace centre' will be built on the site of the prison where 10 IRA prisoners died during a hunger strike.

A man is held by police and weapons are seized after terrorists target a PSNI patrol, and talks aimed at easing tensions ahead of the marching season get underway in Cardiff.

Highlights of the Balmoral Show, held last week at Balmoral Park in Lisburn, featuring agricultural, culinary and horticultural events.

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All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers At the porch of St Augustine's Anglican church, wedged on Derry 's walls between the loyalist Fountain estate and the republican Bogside below, volunteers Elma and Ivan Taylor ... (more)

I've alluded to this in a post earlier in the week , but the Oireachtas record gives Deputy Gerry Adams a voice not captured on the Dail video .

He was the passenger in a silver coloured Audi TT which came off the Ballygowan Road in Saintfield shortly before 10.30pm on Friday.

They were called to the scene at Mourne Park House on the Newry Road, Kilkeel, shortly before 10:00 BST.

An emergency aid scheme for Northern Ireland farmers struggling due to the fodder crisis will launch at midnight on Saturday.

Thomas Anthony Gavin McAllister, 26, from Glenkeen in Dunmurry appeared at Lisburn Magistrates Court this week charged with possession of a Class B drug, namely 4-MEC. The court heard that the police were carrying out a mobile patrol in the Bellsteele area.

Gwynedd councillor Chris O'Neal logged eight near misses in 24 minutes at the old Farrar Road site, while shoppers questioned were conflicted over which lane to take for ASDA when approaching from Deiniol Road.

Due to the success of the scheme in the area the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service are now recruiting for this year's scheme.