Creeslough: ‘I can’t get my head around how a site can be built on when there’s a criminal investigation’Ten people died in incident at service station in Donegal village in October 2022Sat Apr 12 2025 - 06:00
Rory Gallagher issues legal proceedings against GAA and Jarlath Burns Action comes after intervention by GAA chief in former Derry football manager’s appointment to Naas senior side Fri Apr 04 2025 - 21:28
Blocking Irish listeners from BBC Sounds app a ‘slap in the face’Broadcaster is making the change to boost its commercial incomeMon Mar 31 2025 - 16:50
Joe Lynskey Disappeared case: ‘When he came out of the monastery he came out for the cause. And the cause executed him’ Maria Lynskey had the funeral arrangements in place for her uncle before her family’s hopes of finding his remains were dashed for the second time in a decadeFri Mar 28 2025 - 17:00
Anger in Northern Ireland at welfare cuts to balance budget books Concern in Stormont over Rachel Reeves’ spring statement as higher numbers of people rely on welfare support in NI than UK averageWed Mar 26 2025 - 19:47
North’s homelessness services under mounting pressure Demand for temporary accommodation surges almost 180% in six years, notes public spending watchdogTue Mar 25 2025 - 06:00
‘Absolute fear’: UK’s planned benefit cuts alarm vulnerable people in Northern IrelandLabour’s proposed ‘shake-up’ of the welfare system raises the prospect of people with disabilities losing supports for their personal independence Tue Mar 25 2025 - 06:00
‘Doubly cruel’ for Joe Lynskey family to learn exhumed remains are not hisThe Disappeared: For the second time in a decade, hopes of family of former Cistercian monk have been dashedMon Mar 24 2025 - 19:00
‘Outgoing, bubbly and caring’: Tributes to girl (11) killed by car while getting off school busCaitlin-Rose McMullan was returning to Castledawson, Co Derry from Magherafelt on WednesdayThu Mar 06 2025 - 11:19
Mixed feelings outside Belfast missile plant about munitions heading to UkraineFrench-owned Thales factory in east Belfast to manufacture more than 5,000 missiles for Ukraine’s armed forces as part of £1.16bn deal that will create 200 jobsTue Mar 04 2025 - 20:34
Five takeaways from the Stormont programme for governmentHospital waiting lists and social housing top of ambitious agenda Mon Mar 03 2025 - 21:11
Stormont publishes first programme for government in over a decadeHundred-page document outlines plans to tackle North’s spiralling waiting listsMon Mar 03 2025 - 18:08
‘Where I come from, people don’t do medicine. It’s not on your radar’: how a new generation of doctors is being trained Lower tuition fees and living costs in Derry are attracting more medical students from diverse backgrounds across the islandMon Mar 03 2025 - 06:00
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and Pearse Doherty among mourners at funeral of former senior IRA memberBrendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane led a mass break-out in September 1983Tue Feb 25 2025 - 18:50
Belfast race riots aftermath: ‘We have received nothing from the council, the government or our insurance company’Immigrants whose businesses were destroyed or damaged in August’s violence say the only help they have got came from the publicTue Feb 25 2025 - 06:00
‘More violence is not the answer’: PSNI urges against retaliation after dissident republican is shotShooting of taxi driver in west Belfast linked to internal feud among Óglaigh na hÉireann membersMon Feb 24 2025 - 21:10
Jeffrey Donaldson’s wife seeks dropping of two charges in sex offence case against both Eleanor Donaldson faces five charges of aiding and abetting in connection with alleged offences linked to husbandFri Feb 21 2025 - 19:33
‘My five-year-old can now talk fluently in Irish’: Inside the Irish language school in a loyalist heartlandIn an area once a bastion of unionism the school has become a symbol of east Belfast’s altered political landscape and demographyWed Feb 05 2025 - 06:00
‘He was so talented.’ Sister of former champion boxer found murdered in Spain tells of family’s ‘living nightmare’As a young fighter John George’s future seemed full of promise – Carl Frampton was among those he defeated – until ‘one night ruined his life’, says his sister CourtneySun Feb 02 2025 - 06:00
Omagh bomb: Sister of Spanish youth leader killed in atrocity hopes to ‘close a wound’ open for 26 yearsBereaved families and survivors of 1998 atrocity gather at the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, as public inquiry opens Tue Jan 28 2025 - 12:42
PSNI officer who made Troubles commemoration event arrest did not respond ‘with sensitivity’Police watchdog inquiry centred on ‘unnecessary’ handcuffing at Sean Graham Bookmakers anniversaryMon Jan 27 2025 - 17:07
Kneecap crew react to Oscars disappointment: ‘We’ll have a few drinks’‘We will have a few drinks and dust ourselves down,’ says writer and director Rich PeppiattThu Jan 23 2025 - 19:39
Autopsy on Belfast man murdered in Spain shows he was stabbed before being shotThe remains of John George (37), who went missing in Spain before Christmas, were found in Rojales, near AlicanteWed Jan 22 2025 - 14:23
UK government refuses unionist request to use post-Brexit Stormont BrakeDUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’Mon Jan 20 2025 - 20:52
Low crime rate and ‘proper summers’ drawing police officers to AustraliaOfficers from An Garda Síochána are also being tempted by lifestyle and pay and conditionsFri Jan 17 2025 - 06:00
Protesters opposed to gold mine in Tyrone seek assurances that cyanide will not be usedEnvironmental campaigners staged a protest outside the inquiry into a proposed mine near Greencastle in the Sperrin Mountains, carrying miniature coffins with the words ‘RIP Clean Air’Mon Jan 13 2025 - 17:04
‘It’s an ongoing torture for the families,’ says man leading search for North’s DisappearedJon Hill reveals investigators were contacted by people affected by Say Nothing, the Disney+ series that includes scenes portraying final hours of Jean McConville and Joe LynskeySat Jan 11 2025 - 06:00
Body of missing Belfast man believed to have been found in SpainJohn George (31) failed to return from a holiday in Alicante last monthTue Jan 07 2025 - 18:41
Nurses in North join call for emergency plan to tackle ED overcrowdingDirector of Royal College of Nursing (NI) believes Northern Ireland faring ‘slightly worse’ than RepublicMon Jan 06 2025 - 20:21
Influential Sinn Féin strategist Ted Howell dies aged 78Trusted adviser to Gerry Adams was a senior member of the party’s backroom team in negotiations that led to the Belfast AgreementFri Jan 03 2025 - 20:58
Family of Belfast man missing in Spain urge PSNI to take more ‘proactive’ roleJohn George was last in contact with family on December 14th from the south of SpainFri Jan 03 2025 - 17:09
Family of GAA official Seán Brown say decision to challenge ruling ordering inquiry into his sectarian killing ‘shameful’Belfast High Court judge had found UK government remains in breach of a human rights duty to investigate the full extent of state collusion in the May 1997 murderFri Jan 03 2025 - 00:01
Seanad bid by Conor Murphy a large blow to Sinn Féin’s Stormont operationRegarded as a shoo-in for the Seanad post, the current economy minister will quit his job in the Assembly once electedMon Dec 30 2024 - 16:34
Sinn Féin Stormont minister Conor Murphy to run for Seanad next monthSurprise announcement would see Economy Minister depart from post if electedMon Dec 30 2024 - 14:36
House prices prompt growing number of young professionals to live in Newry while commuting to DublinPost-pandemic remote working, cheaper rents and a lower cost of living are among the reasons for Southern-based workers to rent or buy in the townSat Dec 28 2024 - 06:00
Spanish firm rescues Belfast’s shipyard Harland & WolffCompany’s last two owners have gone bust twice in the past five years, leading to concerns about the yard’s futureThu Dec 19 2024 - 15:08
PSNI officer charged with conspiring to pervert course of justiceProsecution is linked to events on Ormeau Road in Belfast in February 2021Wed Dec 18 2024 - 14:12
Police targeting of Belfast journalists exposes ‘lack of legal safeguards’ for press freedom Tribunal ruling on Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey underscores need to protect press freedom and confidential journalistic sourcesTue Dec 17 2024 - 15:54
PSNI confirms investigation into alleged incident among Armagh All-Ireland squad in USReport made regarding incident believed to have occurred while team was on celebratory holidayMon Dec 09 2024 - 13:57
Cavan-Monaghan: story of the countLine-up remains the same with two Sinn Féin, two Fianna Fáil and one Fine Gael returnedTue Dec 03 2024 - 11:25
Cavan-Monaghan: Matt Carthy (SF)Birmingham-born father-of-five is a former Sinn Féin press officerTue Dec 03 2024 - 10:48
Cavan-Monaghan: Niamh Smyth (FF)Former art teacher steeped in Fianna Fáil historyTue Dec 03 2024 - 10:46
Cavan-Monaghan: David Maxwell (FG)The 58-year-old father-of-two has been an undertaker for 15 yearsTue Dec 03 2024 - 10:43
‘I felt really invaded’: Spiking victim calls for new law in Britain to be extended to Northern IrelandFrustrated by the PSNI’s lack of response to a spiking incident, Tanya Kearns is lobbying Stormont for legislative changeSun Dec 01 2024 - 06:00
Search for Disappeared victim Joe Lynskey not linked to Troubles drama, says investigatorGrave in the village of Annyalla in Co Monaghan exhumed by team of experts searching for ‘disappeared’ victim Joe LynskeyWed Nov 27 2024 - 19:42
Inside Sinn Féin in the North: How it has moved from crisis to war footing for the ROI general electionThe party, rocked by fallout from child sex offences against former press officer Michael McMonagle, is facing internal calls to professionalise and shed its siege mentalityMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
‘No mercy’ shown by former Belfast Christian Brother to abuse victims, judge tells courtJudge was responding to request for leniency for Paul Dunleavy (88) on grounds of age ahead of sentencing for historic child sex offencesFri Nov 22 2024 - 13:38
North’s sports minister has ‘no objection’ to attending GAA match amid row over Casement fundingDUP minister Gordon Lyons plays down reports of ‘tetchy’ meeting with GAA president Jarlath BurnsWed Nov 20 2024 - 17:18
