Antrim County, Northern Ireland News

A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s.

THE FAMILY of a Newbridge man who died while driving a poorly maintained company van say they are disappointed his employers have not been brought to justice for failing to carry out proper checks on the firm's vehicles.

Forensic officers remove the remains of partially exploded car bomb from outside a police building, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

UNIONISTS have their hand on the Stormont steering wheel, DUP leader Peter Robinson told his party's conference on Saturday.

Five people have been arrested after police exchanged fire with suspected dissident republicans in Co Fermanagh.

A Catholic priest has been asked to leave his post over child abuse claims dating back to the mid-1970s. Tags: church Police launched an investigation into the conduct of Fr Paul Symonds when he was working in England, the church authorities said.

Two men have been killed in a car crash outside Ballyclare, Co Antrim. Saturday, 21 November 2009 Tags: Local News police The car they were travelling in left the Colin Road shortly before 1.30pm on Saturday afternoon.

A prisoner on a phased-release scheme from Maghaberry Prison is missing. Police in NI and England have launched a search for 34-year-old Coleraine man Jonathan Peter Neill, who was last seen on Monday in the Molesworth Road area of Cookstown.

A 55-year-old woman who took part in the Irish Republican Army's first car-bomb attacks in London was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the dissident IRA killings of two British soldiers earlier this year.

A 200 metre exclusion zone has been set up after an overnight fire at a mechanical engineering works in Newtownabbey.

A former Northern Ireland police officer, who was once also a member of the Orange Order, has been selected to join Sinn Fein's team in the region's Assembly.

Four young women, all students at NUI Galway, died in a road accident in Co.Galway last night.

A WOMAN convicted of bombing the Old Bailey in an IRA attack has been arrested in connection with the murder of Wood Green soldier Patrick Azimkar.

A GWENT man went on trial yesterday accused of murdering a three-year-old girl by setting a fire at her home.

THE brother of Coleraine man Victor Hamill has described the last moments of his life as they rowed together on the River Bann.

A Co Antrim accountant has been hit with a 30,000 euro fine and forced out of the profession's chartered institute.

FIREFIGHTERS from the Coleraine District will be involved in two road traffic collision extrication demonstrations in Ballymoney, Townhead Street car park at 12 noon and the Diamond ,Coleraine at 2pm on Saturday, November 26.. The demonstrations form part of National Road Safety Week and Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service would like to invite ...

Belfast's sexual history is to be laid bare in a new book on the efforts to control women's private lives.

Canadian airframer Bombardier today started construction of a site in Belfast, Northern Ireland that will house wing production for its new CSeries aircraft.

NORTHERN IRELAND'S first killer driver, a 26-year-old prison officer, to be sentenced for 'causing death by driving without due care or attention' was, last Thursday, freed after being given a maximum of 240 hours community service.