The blaze took hold at a house at Church Avenue in Dundrum, Co Down ... Max Joyce from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service told the BBC: "Thankfully no-one was injured during this ...

The beautifully scenic coastal town of Dundrum is an appropriate setting for The All Ireland Busking Competition, in the shadow of the Mourne Mountains, themselves so often celebrated in song.

were crossing Dundrum Bay on Wednesday afternoon when they got into difficulty. The south Down coastguard was called to the scene and freed the family. Ms Duffield said the mud was "like cement".

Dundrum residents have ... lived here my whole life, my whole family is from here and when I told my dad we’d been named best place to live in Northern Ireland he couldn’t believe it either ...