Five teenagers died after the car in which they were travelling the wrong way down a motorway was involved in a head-on crash with another vehicle.

Officers said the incident started after a car failed to stop in Ballynahinch.

Four police officers sustained minor injuries in the west Belfast incident.

A man who dragged a Garda along in his van when the officer got his arm caught in the vehicle’s window as he attempted to stop the driver has been jailed for four years

The court heard the boy was 15 when he stole a Volkswagen Golf in Cabra and led Gardaí on a high-speed chase