‘Finally the victims will get justice’: Ex-teacher who abused 19 boys to be sentenced
Abuse by Patrick Sharkey spanned dates between 1970 and 1995 with 59 offences in relation to just one victim
Belfast
Communities come together for a few tunes as Charles and Camilla get a taste of a Belfast fleadh
First day of the couple’s visit to Northern Ireland sees king and queen join in with the bodhrán
Belfast harbour plans £1.3bn investment over next 25 years
Trade volumes at harbour forecast to reach more than 31m tonnes by 2050
Kainos, one of Northern Ireland’s largest companies, increases headcount as revenues rise
Digital services group acquired Canadian peer company in September 2025
Belfastmen - An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation: Defiance, tenderness and interrupted clandestine encounters
Focus on individual tales the great strength of this book, as author details back stories and afterlives of those on trial and the consequences of exposure
Murder investigation begins after man dies following east Belfast break-in
PSNI believe multiple intruders entered Holywood Road apartment building during early hours
Obituary: Jamshid MirFenderesky: Iranian Renaissance man, painter and classical guitarist who made Belfast his home
Art gallery he ran also became a sort of cultural and philosophical salon
CS Lewis’s rich Irishness gives the lie to the ‘buttoned-up Englishman’ stereotype
As an ‘alternative’ Ulster Protestant with parents from Cork, his Irishness has been marginalised and reduced
Not ‘reasonably foreseeable’ someone would access culvert where Noah Donohoe’s body found
Official says he had never seen a death in such circumstances as those of boy (14)
MHL Hotel Collection completes €190m refinancing with AIB
Dublin’s College Green Hotel and Galmont Hotel in Galway among properties refinanced by John Malone-backed group
Irish woman accused of stealing almost €1m from one of Australia’s richest women
Annalouise Spence (51) allegedly went on five-year spending spree while working for billionaire philanthropist Judith Neilson
Department ‘didn’t have clue’ if culvert where Noah Donohoe died was locked, inquest told
Senior Department for Infrastructure official said that it had been ‘great shock’ schoolboy had died in water tunnel
Gender based violence requires ‘island-wide lens’, Taoiseach tells Belfast audience
Micheál Martin says people in the Republic have ‘nowhere near the level of engagement with the North’ as before
How the PSNI botched the Katie Simpson murder investigation
In the News podcast: Young woman’s death was not a suicide – she was killed by Jonathan Creswell
New Belfast trains will cut travel times to Dublin to under two hours
Stadler trains, due in 2028, will have spacious dining areas and unaided boarding on exterior doors
Compulsory Irish in a united Ireland? Unionists won’t like that
Calls to strengthen the language to correct the wrongs of colonialism may seem like a parody to them
Tattle Life: Couple vow to ‘fight for justice’ after losing £300,000 damages against gossip website
Entrepreneurs Neil and Donna Sands had their libel damages set aside by a High Court judge in Belfast on Tuesday
Officers hurt and vehicles damaged as PSNI attacked at Belfast car event
Arrests will follow, police say
Police attacked at ‘absolutely chaotic’ west Belfast gathering involving hundreds of youths
Sinn Féin MLA condemned disgraceful actions of those involved but also criticised PSNI response
Derry Girls actor Kathy Kiera Clarke: ‘I feel like everything I did before doesn’t exist in many ways’
Actor Kathy Kiera Clarke, best known as Derry Girls’ Aunt Sarah, on how the Troubles shaped her early life
PSNI officer injured after being struck by motocross-style bike
Six arrested in separate incidents for drink-driving and other offences
Michael Campbell obituary: Pioneering writer and actor from Game of Thrones and Blue Lights
He took on the stage name Michael Patrick as there already was an actor with the name Michael Campbell
Man charged over car bomb attack outside Dunmurry police station in Belfast
The 66-year-old man was arrested in the Dunmurry area under the Terrorism Act
Titanic Belfast’s first fashion exhibition Northern Threads showcases textile heritage
Deirdre McQuillan: Exhibition shows fashion’s power to attract attention, how deeply it is connected to place and how it feeds into art and design
British army soldiers ‘overreacted’ and lost control’, inquest into shooting dead of five people in Belfast finds
A priest, three teenagers and a man in his 30s died in the Springhill and Westrock areas of west Belfast in July 1972
The New IRA: Can ‘a couple of guys with gas canisters’ change Northern Ireland?
Though diminished, the group remains dangerous, as the recent attacks in Lurgan and Dunmurry demonstrate
Sinn Féin condemns dissident violence, but does it truly back the police?
Part of the aim of dissident violence is to embarrass the party by forcing it to condemn what it once supported
‘I don’t want to go back to that’: Fears ‘reignited’ among PSNI staff following Dunmurry attack
Union representative Tracey Godfrey ‘inundated’ with calls from civilian workers since speaking publicly about concerns
Stena Line to invest €16m in its Irish Sea fleet
Company said the move will enable a ‘wide range of enhancements and modernisation’ across its 11 vessels in the region
‘No one wants this’: Dunmurry residents resolute after car bomb attack
Sheila Melly (78) felt lucky to live next to the police station — until an ‘unmerciful bang’ shattered the night
‘Day of reckoning’: Former teacher (77) jailed for indecently assaulting four girls in 1970s
Judge says conviction of William Lloyd-Lavery should be a warning to other paedophiles to live in fear of crimes catching up with them
Man (66) arrested under Terrorism Act over Dunmurry police station bombing
High visibility patrols planned for communities across the North
Watch: The moment car bomb explodes at Dunmurry police station
Suspected dissident republican attack is condemned by Northern Ireland’s political leaders and police chief
‘Terrorism is always wrong’: NI leaders condemn bomb attack outside Dunmurry PSNI station
Two babies were among those being brought to safety at the time of Saturday’s explosion, believed to be the work of the New IRA
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