The eight-day festival, running until 9 August, is the world's largest celebration of Irish music and culture.

A pilot scheme to extend Belfast city centre trading hours on a Sunday will begin at 11:00 BST but it is a move that people in the city have mixed feelings about.

The fire service on Arranmore will not keep two paid firefighters positions once the postholders retire.

Now, still only 18, Jamie is one of the youngest people to be shortlisted for the British Floristry Association's Floristry Student of the Year.

A male member of staff was stabbed with a screwdriver during the incident on 31 July.