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POLICE have named a teenage girl who was killed in a road traffic collision in Co. Tyrone as 17-year-old Kamile Vaicikonyte. The schoolgirl and a 19-year-old male named locally as Jamie Moore died at the scene of the single-vehicle collision in the Doogary Road area of Omagh at around 9.50pm on Tuesday. The collision occurred on a stretch of the A5 a day after Miss … [Read more...] about Police name teenage girl killed in Co. Tyrone collision

AN INVESTIGATION is underway after a young man was killed in a collision between a quad bike and a tractor. The man, aged in his 20s, was driving the bike which collided with a tractor on the R353 in Derrybrien, Gort, County Galway at around 1.15pm on April 28. His body was removed from the scene to University Hospital Galway and a post-mortem examination is due to take … [Read more...] about Man dies following collision between tractor and quad bike on Irish road

TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin raised Ireland's ongoing issues with Britain’s controversial new Troubles legislation during a meeting in London this week. Mr Martin represented Ireland at the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) which took place in Westminster yesterday. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris led the British delegation at the … [Read more...] about Tánaiste raised Legacy Act issues with Northern Ireland Secretary during ‘constructive’ meeting

TWO soldiers suspected of killing an innocent schoolgirl and an unarmed man in Derry at the height of the Troubles will not face prosecution. Annette McGavigan, 14, was shot dead during rioting in the Bogside area on September 6, 1971. William McGreanery, 41, died in the early hours of September 15 in an incident where a soldier opened fire from an Army lookout at a junctions … [Read more...] about Former soldiers will not be prosecuted over deaths of innocent girl and unarmed man during Troubles

AN arrest has been made after two men made multiple attempts to enter homes and vehicles in one night. PSNI officers were called to reports of attempted burglaries and thefts from vehicles in the Knockmore Road area in Lisburn. The incidents happened in the late hours on April 28 and into the early hours of April 29. “We received multiple reports that two men were trying … [Read more...] about Arrest made after two men attempt series of burglaries in one night