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CLAIMS from the republican splinter group Óglaigh na hÉireann (ÓNH) that it attempted to kill an alleged loyalist in west Belfast earlier this...
Mike Nesbitt’s resignation as health minister should serve as a warning to Jon Burrows: it is one thing to win applause by opposing an unpopular...
The weekend collision on the M9 motorway in Co Kildare, which killed five teenage boys and left four members of a separate family seriously injured,...
ANYONE spending time on social media cannot fail to have noticed the proliferation of competition websites in recent years. Slick adverts dangle the...
It is completely unacceptable for groups, whether based in a loyalist or a republican area, to organise bonfires which either endanger the public or...
The health service is a massive institution, with a crucial role to play for all citizens, from the youngest to the oldest, and across its many levels...
THERE has been much talk in recent days of building on the stunning success that was the staging of the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Belfast. A city...
IT has been well documented that staff who originally come from other countries make an absolutely crucial contribution to health services across...
THERE is no doubting the strength of feeling in some quarters about the manner in which 51 cows were culled in Co Tyrone. A large number of farmers...
For the past unforgettable week, Belfast has danced with a new rhythm. It was there in the music on the streets, in the fiddle and flute, in the beat...
Any suggestion that files containing confidential and highly sensitive information about patients are less than totally secure must always be treated...
No family should have to flee their home because they fear the people living around them more than the dangers beyond their front door. Yet that is...
BELFAST has been a city transformed over recent days, with tens of thousands of people from across Ireland and beyond flocking to Fleadh Cheoil na...
For many people, stepping into a taxi requires an act of trust. Whether travelling home late at night, taking children to school or making a hospital...
The way in which the PSNI has repeatedly set out to maintain surveillance operations against journalists who are attempting to establish the truth...
ANYONE driving any distance this week will have noticed an increased PSNI presence, as a welcome focus is put on the shocking number of deaths on our...
IT is difficult to imagine a more disturbing breach of trust than the case involving a senior nursing assistant who filmed demeaning videos of...
For all the disappointments surrounding Northern Ireland’s failed bid to host Euro 2028 games at a redeveloped Casement Park, there is a positive...
There will be enormous relief that a bomb which was capable of causing death and destruction on an appalling scale was intercepted outside...
We have had many previous major inquiries into clerical child abuse, which helped to establish the full appalling scale of the issue, but the latest...
Few stories in recent years have united people across Northern Ireland quite like that of Dáithí Mac Gabhann. For almost eight years, we have...
We frequently have issues over offensive emblems which are displayed in both nationalist and unionist areas, particularly during the summer months, in...
The scenes witnessed on the streets of west Belfast over the weekend should concern everyone, regardless of where they live or their views on...
Andy Burnham will be acutely aware as he becomes the latest UK prime minister later today that, one after another, each of his five immediate...
Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, the debate over Britain’s departure from the European Union refuses to fade. While political attention has...
The loss of more than £62 million in unpaid rates over the past three years is a sobering figure for a Stormont Executive already struggling to...
IT was clear from the first attacks by the US and Israel on Iran at the end of February that this was an entirely unnecessary war, and one from which...
After another bonfire season which witnessed several appalling displays of hate, as well as the destruction of family homes near a pyre, will any...
DEALING with the appalling bloodshed from our past has always been a uniquely difficult task, and it is an enduring regret that it did not prove...
WHILE it may not have seemed the case during some particularly tense periods over the last three decades, the regulation of parades must be considered...
The Casement Park saga has become close to a political and sporting disaster, with the British government, Stormont and the GAA all bearing varying...
AS the climax of the parading season approaches, with the associated bonfires that precede Twelfth celebrations in many areas, there has sadly also...
THE family and friends of Lyra McKee have been living a nightmare since she was shot dead in Derry seven years ago, and the acquittal of three men who...
THERE are many questions which the DUP has yet to address over its disgraced former leader Jeffrey Donaldson, following his conviction for profoundly...
OFFICIAL figures show race hate crimes at their highest recorded level, and the evidence of this shocking intolerance is sadly visible on a daily...
The ramifications of Jeffrey Donaldson’s conviction for his appalling child sex offences are enormous at every level, and will unfold well beyond...
Victims aged in their nineties were among those targeted by the callous gang. Belfast Crown Court heard that the fraudsters would cold-call an elderly...
We have come through a dreadful period when an appalling knife attack in north Belfast was followed by prolonged and carefully coordinated rioting in...
The symbolism involved in the decision by the Policing Board to approve the sale of Crossmaglen PSNI station in south Armagh, regarded throughout the...
The sight of a modern hospital building standing largely empty while millions are spent simply to keep the lights on is one that will provoke...
Keir Starmer’s time in Downing Street has effectively been up for several months, and the dramatic scale of Andy Burnham’s victory in the...
NO serious observer was ever in doubt that the racist rioting which traumatised ordinary citizens across our society earlier this month was plainly...
When The Irish News first reported allegations of abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in 2017, many disturbing questions were raised about the treatment...
WE are by now sadly familiar with stories about the dire state of our health service, with its overcrowded emergency departments and patients...
The debate over the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) is a complex one, but the circumstances in which some unionists vetoed an attempt by...
Few words generate more fear than a doctor telling a patient that cancer is suspected. The days and weeks that follow are often filled with anxiety,...
The real face of both Belfast and modern Ireland was on show at the weekend as massive crowds attended a City Hall rally which sent out a powerful...
The upsurge in racist intimidation and violence across our society following the appalling knife attack in north Belfast earlier this week has created...
The knife attack in north Belfast which left a man in a serious condition in hospital was horrific in every regard, and it is essential that the...
The right to protest is a fundamental democratic freedom. So too is the right to report on those protests. Both principles came under pressure in...
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