Northern Ireland is the first part of the UK to give jabs to 16 and 17 year olds.

Adoptive parents welcome a new bill to modernise NI's laws and provide families with more support.

Allister Kelly was killed in an incident at the Linden Foods plant near Dungannon on Thursday.

The 17-year-old died at the scene of the crash in Drumree on Thursday, while two men were injured.

Slow moving showers could bring up to 20mm of rain in an hour, leading to difficult driving conditions.

New Irish FA president Conrad Kirkwood says safety will inform the number of spectators allowed to attend Northern Ireland's World Cup qualifier with Switzerland in September.

The Bronze Age sword had been in private hands since being discovered on the shores of the River Erne in County Fermanagh in 1952.

Ireland's Stephanie Meadow keeps her outside hopes of an Olympic medal in the women's golf alive with a third round of 68 in Saitama.

Ireland team-mates Stephanie Meadow and Leona Maguire reflect on their third rounds of the women's golf at the Tokyo Olympics.

Irish boxer Kellie Harrington reaches the women's light final at the Olympics after a split decision win over Thailand's Sudaporn Seesondee.

Belfast boxer Aidan Walsh says winning an Olympic bronze medal is "massive" despite the injury which forced him to miss his semi-final.

Stephen Scullion, Kevin Seaward and Paul Pollock will form an entirely Northern Irish line-up in Ireland's Olympic men's marathon challenge.

Three more Covid-linked deaths and another 1,641 cases of coronavirus are reported on Thursday.

There are also changes to NI's travel list, with fully-vaccinated arrivals from France no longer required to quarantine.

Officials have halted or restricted visitors' contact with patients as pressure mounts on services.

The head of Hospitality Ulster says restaurants, bars and cafes would be "singled out".

A visitor code of conduct asks people to avoid high fives and hugging.

Why do vaccination numbers among the under-30s in Northern Ireland remain relatively low?

Saturday is the last day to get your first dose of a Covid jab at NI's mass vaccination centres.

People travelling on Sunday should get an email inviting them to download a certificate, say officials.

Potentially hundreds of the brightest meteors will be visible across Northern Ireland in August.

The weather forecast in Northern Ireland.

Paul McErlean and his friends were offered a spare caravan by a former UK home secretary.

How can new rapid transit routes in Belfast best serve the city's population?

There is a debate about the exact location of the time capsule buried at the County Down town's harbour.

A colony of seagulls joined the 18,000 fans in being enthralled by the Ulster Final at Croke Park as Tyrone held off Monaghan's stirring comeback.

More than 500 graves thought lost forever have been uncovered by volunteers - both animal and human.

Olympic bronze medallist Aidan Walsh and sister Michaela catch up with BBC Sport NI in Tokyo to discuss his Games journey and holiday plans when he arrives home!

Paul McErlean, from County Londonderry, was hiking near Snowdon when he got a text about the virus.

The seafront entertainment complex has been run by the Trufelli family, who founded the business in 1926.

The family of a man whose surgery for pancreatic cancer was cancelled twice plead for help.

The dual carriageway will connect Londonderry to the border at Aughnacloy and beyond to Dublin.

A resident of the flats says he awoke to find thick smoke in the communal corridor.

The Bishop of Raphoe is the fifth Irish bishop to say communions and confirmations will restart.

Derry City beat Longford Town 2-0 in Saturday night's Premier Division game at Bishopsgate to move into sixth place in the table.

The ram's County Donegal owner says the record-breaking price is a "once in a lifetime" deal.

The plan to extend the country's vaccination programme was announced in July.

Inquest says Mark O’Sullivan was unlawfully killed, and records his brother and father took their own lives.

Laois County Council says the decision was taken in conjunction with the latest public health advice.

Academics say there is an absence of clarity about how some decisions were made during the pandemic.

The man was driving one of two cars which collided near Castleblayney.