The Catholic Church has issued advice to priests and those attending Mass across Ireland following the first case of coronavirus to be detected.

A judge in Derry has defended the granting of anonymity to people charged with drug offences due to the fact "we happen to have a nest of dissidents in this city".

HEROIN addicts are selling stolen meat from door-to-door in order to pay for their habit, the High Court heard today.

A man who stabbed a 'Good Samaritan' 28 times and battered her to death with kitchen pans after she had taken him in has been jailed for 10 years.

The Republic's health minister has said any lack of information surrounding the first case of coronavirus in Ireland is due to the Dublin government following "best public health practice".

A swan has been caught on video being escorted down a north Belfast road by two police officers.

Three men have been arrested by detectives investigating a security alert in Co Antrim last month.

A man has appeared in court in relation to the murder of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods.

Those in close contact with a woman diagnosed with Covid-19 have been traced and notified, health authorities in the Republic have said.

?Health officials on both sides of the border are on alert following the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.

AN inventor who set up Sirocco Engineering Works in Belfast has been honoured with a blue plaque.

HOSPITAL waiting lists have shot up in the last year, with more than 305,000 people now waiting on a first appointment with a consultant.

SIX grammar schools are bidding for extra places as they brace themselves for another bumper transfer year.

A CO Derry camog who will sing for her place ITV's The Voice tomorrow night, has said without the support from home the process would be "a lot tougher".

THE Education Authority (EA) has launched an investigation after a four-year-old autistic boy was left alone on a school bus for four hours.

THE Alliance Party received £82,500 of funds from private donors in the last three months of 2019.

Welsh heart-throb Tom Jones will play a second concert in Belfast this summer.

Two men from Newtownabbey who tried to steal a woman's BMW in an early-morning attempted hijacking have been jailed Jailing Conor Beattie and Stephen McCann, Judge David McFarland told the pair: "The offence of hijacking a lady in these circumstances is so serious that it requires an immediate custodial sentence.

A RURAL Catholic post-primary school is facing a battle to join the integrated sector.

A composition based on civil rights movements around the world will form part of a music festival in Derry next month.