The principal of the school where one of the young people who died in a road crash in County Louth taught says she was a "master of her craft".

The offer aimed at avoiding industrial action, applies to doctors, nurses and auxiliary staff, but not homecare workers in the independent sector

More than 30 pupils at Sandelford Special School in Coleraine, County Londonderry, have had to be homeschooled for a week.

Vets will be encouraged to have health-related conversations with farmers on the farm.

Tánaiste (Ireland's PM) Simon Harris is hosting NI Secretary Hilary Benn in Dublin at the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference.