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News: Cash machine thieves leave Ballygawley bereft of bank 
Ballygawley’s only bank has been forced to close after a cash machine ram-raid which demolished part of the building. Customers living in the Co Tyrone village must now travel several miles to use another machine. A spokesman for Northern Bank last night said... 20/11/09
Sport: Trap not confident of replay
GIOVANNI Trapattoni last night backed the FAI’s demand for a replay against World Cup play-off opponents France but was pessimistic about the outcome. The Republic of Ireland manager hoped that pressure would be brought to bear on France and FIFA, but was more hopeful... 20/11/09
News: Written-off student loans soar by 1,840%
THE amount of student loans being written off has risen almost twenty-fold over the past
decade. The amount of debt wiped out in Northern Ireland last year totalled £815,000. This is a staggering jump from 10 years ago, when the Student Loans Company cancelled... 20/11/09
News: Secrets sown in soil
The hidden history of Belfast has been told through the trees that line the city’s streets and populate forest parks. Ben Simon, author of a lavishly illustrated new book If Trees Could Talk, says the city’s greenery holds many secrets but most people... 20/11/09
News: Loyalist accused of further sex offences
A high-profile loyalist accused of raping a 13-year-old girl is being investigated for further alleged offences against two other potential victims – one of them a boy aged 12, the High Court has heard. Mark Harbinson, a prominent Orangeman during the Drumcree marching stand-off, faces a number of child sex charges following the... 20/11/09
News: Still no photo of 4th abductor
POLICE have again refused to release a picture, or even a description, of the only IRA kidnapper still on the run three-and-a-half years after he and his accomplices jumped bail. Liam Rainey (35), of New Barnsley Crescent, Belfast, was one of four men who abducted dissident republican Bobby Tohill from a bar in February 2004. 20/11/09
News: IRA man stayed ‘below the radar’
IRA man Harry Fitzsimmons managed to remain below the radar in Dundalk before his arrest by a specialised Garda unit in a swoop operation last week. Acting on intelligence, Dublin-based detectives from the force’s Extradition Unit travelled to the Co Louth town on Tuesday... 20/11/09
News: Hand of fate will always dictate who losers are
SPORTSMEN and women are by their nature a competitive lot but sometimes that will to win can spill over into illegal activity. The Republic of Ireland team – and their devastated fans – feel they were cheated out of a potential World Cup place... 20/11/09
News: Mortar bomb ‘was meant to kill police’
A MORTAR bomb found in Armagh was designed to kill police, a senior PSNI officer has said. Bomb-disposal experts were called in to deal with the bomb on the Friary Road after a member of the public told police about the suspicious device on Wednesday night. 20/11/09
News: Belgian PM named first president of Europe
Belgian prime minister Herman van Rompuy was last night named as the first president of the European Union. British Labour peer Baroness Ashton was appointed as the union’s first foreign minister. The two low-key candidates were proposed by Sweden, which holds the rotating EU presidency. 20/11/09
