Former police officer vows to ‘arrest stagnation’ in run to lead Ulster Unionist Party Jon Burrows, co-opted to Assembly seat, says he would aim to attract more women and younger people to partyThu Jan 08 2026 - 16:54
McEntee ‘extremely concerned’ by recent action in VenezuelaVenezuelan people must decide their own future, Minister for Foreign Affairs saysWed Jan 07 2026 - 22:12
US has seized Venezuela-linked oil tanker after weeks-long pursuitSeizure of tanker, with UK operational support, after it slipped through a US ‘blockade’ could stoke tensions with RussiaWed Jan 07 2026 - 15:59
Mike Nesbitt to step down as leader of Ulster Unionist PartyStrangford MLA indicates wish to remain as Minister of Health, but that decision to rest with successorFri Jan 02 2026 - 14:59
‘They have been denied justice’: Families to mark 50th anniversary of Kingsmill massacreTen Protestant workmen were murdered by IRA gunmen posing as British soldiersThu Jan 01 2026 - 22:08
A visit to Belfast’s only soup kitchen to see how they’re helping the homeless this ChristmasDemand has never been greater, according to The People’s Kitchen founder and co-ordinator, Paul McCuskerWed Dec 24 2025 - 06:00
Legal action taken against State over alleged failures on 1974 bombings in Dublin and Monaghan Filings issued on behalf of some of the bereaved families of 1974 bombings, which killed 34Thu Dec 18 2025 - 06:00
Search for IRA murder victim Columba McVeigh (19) ends without success Expert teams covered more than 26 acres at Bragan Bog in Co Monaghan in seventh search since 1999Wed Dec 17 2025 - 00:01
Monaghan regional newspaper The Northern Standard to cease operations after 186 yearsLast editor of family-owned newspaper says closure will leave ‘void’ in the community it served for almost two centuriesThu Dec 11 2025 - 20:53
‘I am not going to hide again’: Families of IRA victims react to Kenova reportRelations privately co-operated with investigation into British army’s top Republican spy, code-named StakeknifeTue Dec 09 2025 - 21:04
Protecting Stakeknife seemed to ‘outweigh’ protecting life of a victim, Kenova report finds Freddie Scappaticci not named in report due to UK government policy of ‘neither confirm nor deny’Tue Dec 09 2025 - 17:06
Investigation after video shows masked men saying NI politicians are ‘legitimate targets’Group calling themselves the New Republican Movement say are ‘patriots’ and ‘frustrated with mass immigration’Tue Dec 02 2025 - 12:52
‘My dad’s a shadow of himself’: Man (82) lost £35,000 in AI cryptocurrency scamSon says his father was ‘groomed’ by fraudsters who conned him three separate times and called him dailyTue Nov 25 2025 - 21:26
Councillors back Alliance motion to rename Prince Andrew Way in CarrickfergusRemoving disgraced royal’s name from street will not be straightforward but can be done, says council chiefRenamingMon Nov 24 2025 - 21:42
‘Let’s start the debate’: State’s GP success sparks talk of contentious cross-Border link Northern Ireland GP care is in crisis – and Republic’s approach may be a way to resolve this, says British Medical Association NI boss Mon Nov 24 2025 - 06:00
Dundalk IT to become university college of Queen’s Belfast in ‘landmark’ partnershipStudents enrolling at the Louth campus in September 2026 will graduate with a Queen’s degreeWed Nov 19 2025 - 11:24
Dedicated PSNI team to investigate Presbyterian Church abuse allegations‘Small number’ of victims have come forward and scale of inquiries may be ‘quite significant’, police chief saysMon Nov 17 2025 - 20:30
‘Genuine medical issues’ delaying trial of Jeffrey and Eleanor Donaldson, judge saysFormer DUP leader has pleaded not guilty to 18 historic sex offences while his wife denies five counts of aiding and abettingThu Nov 13 2025 - 13:17
‘Powerful’ dark web drug linked to rising narcotics fatalities in Northern IrelandInquest warns of ‘emerging threat’ from Nitazene, a synthetic opioid stronger than heroinMon Nov 10 2025 - 17:25
PSNI did not have capacity to manage risk posed by ‘catfisher’, investigation finds Sexual abuser Alexander McCartney drove one of his victims to take her own lifeMon Nov 10 2025 - 13:24
Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope LeoVatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s ruleThu Nov 06 2025 - 14:35
‘Is this really happening?’: Bad Bridgets book to become Margot Robbie filmNorthern Ireland professors wrote about Irish emigrant women that ‘history chose to forget’Thu Nov 06 2025 - 11:59
Trial of man accused of murdering pregnant partner put back to next year 32-year-old Natalie McNally died in 2022 when 15 weeks pregnantWed Nov 05 2025 - 16:04
Trial of man accused of murdering pregnant partner delayed as new evidence comes to light Court heard hundreds of pages of ‘highly relevant material’ in Natalie McNally case were disclosed over weekendMon Nov 03 2025 - 15:36
‘There’s a darkness to that place’: A night in Northern Ireland’s most haunted castleScotsman James Shaw is said to have locked his wife away in the Ballygally turret after she gave birth to a girlFri Oct 31 2025 - 06:00
Former paratrooper Soldier F found not guilty of murder in Bloody Sunday trial British army veteran acquitted of murder and attempted murder at Belfast Crown CourtThu Oct 23 2025 - 17:28
Jeffrey Donaldson trial may not take place until next year, judge says Trial due to begin in November but further medical assessments are required for co-accused Eleanor DonaldsonMon Oct 20 2025 - 13:54
‘People here are horrified’: Irish-language signs vandalised in affluent east BelfastThe PSNI describes it as ‘hate-motivated criminal damage’, while a TUV member calls it ‘probably the most predictable crime in Northern Ireland’Sun Oct 19 2025 - 06:00
Agency in North seeks Asian hornet advice from Waterford centre Further sightings of Asian hornets in Belfast suggests nest, environment agency says Thu Oct 16 2025 - 11:55
‘The six counties is a s**thole’: Michelle Gildernew and Ian Paisley jnr go toe to toe on united Ireland The former Sinn Féin and DUP MPs have made a BBC Northern Ireland podcast on the thorny subjectWed Oct 08 2025 - 19:00
Irish Government must prepare for Border poll, SDLP conference told Party leader Claire Hanna calls on South to create a ‘New Ireland’ ministry Sat Oct 04 2025 - 18:54
PSNI apologises to family over RUC’s poor investigation of politician’s murder over 50 yearsNationalist Patsy Kelly was shot dead and his body was weighed down and dumped in lakeWed Oct 01 2025 - 15:00
Two prominent businessmen accused of fraud over £1bn Nama loan deal were ‘motivated by greed’, court hears Frank Cushnahan (83) and Ian Coulter (54) deny the charges in Belfast caseMon Sept 29 2025 - 19:44
Nama Northern Ireland case adjourned until next weekTrial of Frank Cushnahan and Ian Coulter to begin next MondayWed Sept 24 2025 - 16:13
Jury selection takes place ahead of trial over alleged €1.2bn Nama fraud Prominent Northern Ireland businessman Frank Cushnahan and solicitor Ian Coulter deny all charges against them Mon Sept 22 2025 - 16:07
Simon Harris denies latest Troubles legacy proposals are ‘last roll of the dice’Tánaiste says framework marks a ‘step change’ in relations between governments and a reset after controversial Tory Legacy ActFri Sept 19 2025 - 18:43
Inquest into death of showjumper Katie Simpson may consider Sky documentary Co Armagh 21-year-old from died in 2020 after being attacked in her home Thu Sept 18 2025 - 20:23
Catholics more likely to be concerned about climate change than Protestants, new research showsFree Presbyterians are most sceptical about climate crisis facing the planet, according to surveyThu Sept 18 2025 - 00:01
Irish Government to ratify landmark UN high seas treatyMeanwhile, Northern Ireland’s first peatland strategy launched in ‘turning point’ for peatland conservationWed Sept 17 2025 - 18:47
‘We should all be ashamed’: Ex-loyalist paramilitary sees North’s future in a ‘New Ireland’Former UDA member David Adams says loyalist ‘lurch to the right’ plus rise in racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland compel him to speak outMon Sept 15 2025 - 06:00
Eleanor Donaldson requires further pre-trial medical assessment, court hears Judge signals wish to proceed with Jeffrey and Eleanor Donaldson trial date in early NovemberThu Sept 11 2025 - 13:47
The last Catholic family in a Belfast housing development plagued by intimidationA disabled woman, her husband and daughter are living in fear of sectarian attack in what was supposed to be their dream homeSun Sept 07 2025 - 11:06
‘We started looking in early January’: Southern students search for lower rents in BelfastEstate agents are taking more calls from the South as number of students heading north rises in search of lower cost of livingTue Sept 02 2025 - 06:00
‘I have nightmares about Bragan’: families of the Disappeared gather for poignant memorial White crosses placed on bogland to signify IRA victims who were secretly buriedFri Aug 29 2025 - 20:51
Catherine Connolly sells herself as ‘uniting candidate’ on visit to Sinn Féin heartlandIndependent TD says she wishes to see a united Ireland ‘in my term as president’ but objects to claim she is ‘courting’ Sinn FéinThu Aug 28 2025 - 18:07
New search in Co Monaghan bog for Disappeared victim Columba McVeighLatest dig for teen buried by IRA is continuation of search undertaken two years agoWed Aug 27 2025 - 18:17
Man (40s) arrested over murder of elderly man in Co DownConvicted sex offender Sean Small found dead outside his home in NewcastleTue Aug 26 2025 - 20:44
PSNI begins murder inquiry after 84-year-old man found dead in Co DownThe victim, Sean Small, was discovered in seaside town on Sunday nightMon Aug 25 2025 - 17:34
Living next door to a Belfast peace wall: ‘You feel safer with it up’American accents and the rumbling of black taxi engines echo around a republican memorial garden at the entrance to Bombay Street Tue Aug 12 2025 - 06:00
‘Their infectious energy, their open smiles’: Murder of mother and children has shaken Co Fermanagh community, service hearsRemoval service held for Vanessa Whyte and her children Sara and James RutledgeWed Jul 30 2025 - 17:56
