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Web Summit to hold second event in Japan in 2022
- Technology
- December 3, 2020, 15:21
Technology conference Web Summit is to hold a second event in Japan, its chief executive said, as the company signed a five-year deal to bring its tec(...)

NI secretary ‘not allowing all same-sex couples to marry’
- Irish News
- July 9, 2020, 08:34
The Northern Ireland Secretary is preventing many same-sex couples from planning their weddings, one of the first to legally marry said. Sharni and R(...)

Coronavirus ‘in retreat across the land’, says Matt Hancock
- UK
- June 8, 2020, 20:25
Coronavirus is “in retreat across the land” in Britain, health secretary Matt Hancock asserted on Monday as the number of daily recorded deaths fell t(...)

Lack of capacity led Britain to abandon testing and contact tracing in community
- UK
- May 19, 2020, 18:55
Britain abandoned testing and contact tracing in the community last March because of a lack of capacity, one of the government’s top scientific advise(...)

Covid-19: Virus-killing robot developed by TCD start-up
- Health
- March 25, 2020
A robot emitting ultraviolet light (UVC) with the ability to disinfect hospitals and get rid of the Covid-19 virus has been developed by a start-up at(...)

Northern Ireland’s first gay marriage: ‘It should never have taken Lyra being murdered’
- People
- February 11, 2020, 10:28
Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards are the first couple to enter into a same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. To mark the occasion, those involved(...)

A queer céilí takes pride of place in Belfast
- Stage
- July 27, 2019, 05:00
It’s a typical summer day in Belfast; leaden skies, thick cloud, heavy drizzle. But when we meet in CS Lewis Square on the city’s revitalised east sid(...)

Westminster votes ‘signal a big change’ in Northern Ireland
- Social Affairs
- July 10, 2019, 22:25
A teenage LGBT campaigner from Derry says people feeling pessimistic about the future will be more hopeful after the Westminster vote to legislate for(...)

The Irish Times view on marriage and abortion: change is coming in the North
- Editorial
- July 10, 2019, 16:53
The extension of abortion and same-sex marriage rights to Northern Ireland has come a step closer after the House of Commons voted to introduce both b(...)

Hard Border could lead to breakup of UK, Tory MP warns unionists
- Politics
- July 8, 2019, 21:52
The chair of Westminster’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has warned unionists that a hard Border after Brexit could lead to a united Ireland and (...)