North’s PPS not to seek review of reduced sentence for journalist’s murderLoyalist received heavily reduced sentence of 3 years after turning ‘supergrass’Wed Sept 25 2013 - 18:54
Power-sharing ‘in crisis’ warns Sinn Féin MLA Gerry KellyComments reflect current sour relationship between Sinn Féin and DUPWed Sept 25 2013 - 13:26
Peter Robinson in row over sale of land to CatholicsDUP elaborates on comments made by leader following Sinn Féin accusationsWed Sept 25 2013 - 01:00
Bishop appeal on Disappeared at special ceremony in MeathCall for information to help ease the ‘nightmare’ of loved onesMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:01
Bishop Smith to lead prayers for Disappeared near suspected burial sitesFirst photograph of Joe Lynskey, one of the earliest victims, is releasedFri Sept 20 2013 - 01:01
Richard Haass hears of high financial cost of flags, parades and protests disorderUS diplomat also holds ‘extremely beneficial’ meeting with Orange Order leadersThu Sept 19 2013 - 22:49
Van the Man ‘delighted’ to become Van the FreemanMorrison will play free concert night he is conferred with honourThu Sept 19 2013 - 01:24
Peter Robinson lets Haass know achieving agreement won’t be easyUS talks chairman has now met all the main Northern partiesThu Sept 19 2013 - 01:10
US diplomat Richard Haass wants parties in Northern Ireland to show spirit of compromiseMeasurable progress on such issues as the past, parades and flags is ‘ambitious but possible’Wed Sept 18 2013 - 01:00
Richard Haass faces Northern political process going into reverseNow up to parties to find a way though impasseTue Sept 17 2013 - 13:04
More than 30 arrests in North sex exploitation investigationVictims reluctant to give evidence against their abusers, say policeTue Sept 17 2013 - 08:15
Abuse figures expected to rise as inquiry continuesExploitation raises questions about levels of care for the vulnerableTue Sept 17 2013 - 08:12
Relatives seek review of UK decision on Omagh inquiryFamilies say reasons given by Northern Secretary Theresa Villers for not holding inquiry are ‘trivial’Thu Sept 12 2013 - 22:01
Disappointed Omagh families have no intention of going awayNext step is to take legal action to try to compel an official change of heartThu Sept 12 2013 - 13:22
Amnesty says victims of Troubles ‘disgracefully let down’Agency criticises flawed approach to legacy of conflictThu Sept 12 2013 - 07:45
Inquest into childbirth death of woman due to start in Enniskillen next monthFamily ‘anxious beyond description’ to find out why Dhara Kivlehan died a week after giving birth in Sligo General HospitalTue Sept 10 2013 - 22:24
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt to ask Gilmore to follow up on speech offerVictims’ group says Tánaiste’s comments are “extremely significant”Tue Sept 10 2013 - 01:00
State willing to act on unionist claims over IRA - GilmoreAllegation that State did not do enough to stop IRA must be acknowledgedMon Sept 09 2013 - 10:04
Irish State tried to curb violence, Gilmore tells British-Irish meetingTánaiste acknowledges unionists have perception State did not do enoughMon Sept 09 2013 - 01:06
Unionist politicians sit up in Cambridge as Gilmore majors with timely offer and powerful deliveryThere may be a method to Tánaiste’s move ahead of Haass talks kick-offMon Sept 09 2013 - 01:00
Peace roles must be re-asserted - GilmoreMinister signals Dublin unhappiness with progress made by Northern politiciansSat Sept 07 2013 - 01:01
Man lay dead on Belfast city centre street for three hours as people passed by‘Try not to ignore people who are homeless,’ urges head of Depaul IrelandFri Sept 06 2013 - 07:21
Battle heats up to replace Conall McDevitt as SDLP Assembly memberResignation is “like losing Lionel Messi,” says senior party stalwartFri Sept 06 2013 - 01:13
Marching season cost PSNI more than £15 millionAlmost 700 officers injured in unrest since July 2012, 19 seriouslyThu Sept 05 2013 - 19:52
Belfast Titanic Quarter offices planned in £20m projectFacility to be marketed primarily at hi-tech firms supporting financial services industryThu Sept 05 2013 - 09:09
SDLP rising star resigns over undeclared payments from former employer‘I have fallen below the standards expected of me in public office’Thu Sept 05 2013 - 01:00
Northern Ireland public inquiry into institutional abuse of children to begin in JanuaryInquiry team to travel to Australia to interview alleged victimsWed Sept 04 2013 - 16:36
Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore treesPriest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home townTue Sept 03 2013 - 01:00
Seamus Heaney laid to rest in BellaghyPoet buried in Co Derry after requiem mass in DublinMon Sept 02 2013 - 19:40
Tributes pour in across North for a man who was Ulster to the coreSadness and sense of loss at Seamus Heaney’s death truly crossed the globe but it was deep too in BellaghyMon Sept 02 2013 - 01:14
Belfast ‘hot alert’ system targets the city’s top 30 shopliftersInnovative schemes makes Belfast the only city in UK where such crime is on decreaseWed Aug 28 2013 - 20:18
PSNI now investigating death of fourth woman in DromoreDetectives seeking information on how a 58-year-old woman died 31 years agoWed Aug 28 2013 - 20:18
Belfast Orange hall attacked for seventh time in 13 monthsIncident was attempt to stoke up sectarian tensions, says Orange leaderWed Aug 28 2013 - 15:15
Mortar device found close to Border in south ArmaghSoldiers using sniffer dogs and metal detectors discover device near CullyhannaWed Aug 28 2013 - 12:46
Family of Jean McConville to sue PSNI and British ministry of defencePolice 'utterly failed' to assist family’s search for truth, claim McConvilles on 10th anniversary of recovery of IRA-murdered mother’s remainsWed Aug 28 2013 - 01:00
Ringland and McCrea clash over Maze reconciliation centreNI21 leader accuses Northern Ireland Conservatives of trying to make themselves relevantWed Aug 28 2013 - 01:00
Derry interrogation centre hidden from torture inquiryEuropean court investigating prisoner treament by British army not told of locationTue Aug 06 2013 - 07:51
Sammy Wilson’s former 'apprentice' takes over as Minister for FinanceHamilton now seen as one of leading contenders for DUP top job when Robinson stands downWed Jul 31 2013 - 01:00
Whiskey in the jailFormer bus driver Peter Lavery won the lotto, bought a DeLorean car and started a whiskey company which is about to move to the old Crumlin Road Jail in BelfastSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
East meets West in the growth of Belfast arts festivalsThe west Belfast Feile, which has been running since the height of the Troubles 25 years ago, has served as a model for the East Belfast Arts Festival, now in its second yearSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Tánaiste and Northern Secretary urge Orange Order to reconsider parade strategyGilmore and Villiers say order should talk to local nationalistsWed Jul 24 2013 - 18:58
Orange Order starts ‘long campaign’ to complete north Belfast march and see dissolution of Parades CommissionRelief after contentious parade disperses peacefullySun Jul 21 2013 - 22:17
Contentious Orange Order march concludes peacefullyLeaders signal regular protests will continue as lodges seek to be allowed march through Ardoyne areaSat Jul 20 2013 - 17:42
Northern Secretary appeals for calm before tomorrow’s paradeOrange Order says Belfast parade must be peacefulFri Jul 19 2013 - 22:00
Commission again bans Orange Order from Ardoyne shops tomorrowOrange parade told to disperse at Woodvale Road where fierce rioting erupted on Twelfth of JulyFri Jul 19 2013 - 01:00
Orange Order again banned from Ardoyne marchTensions mount as marchers pledge to walk same route they were previously prevented from usingThu Jul 18 2013 - 10:11
Accord needs ‘broad buy-in’, says HaassUS diplomat meets Northern Ireland leaders to seek solution to issues behind parade violenceThu Jul 18 2013 - 01:00
Orange Order should engage with Richard Haass’s new group on parading, says RobinsonAssembly narrowly supports DUP motion condemning Parades CommissionWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
Flags protest leader Willie Frazer arrested in east BelfastUS vice president Joe Biden tells Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness of his concern over Twelfth of July violenceWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
Life goes on in Northern Ireland despite sadly predictable Twelfth riotingThe hope is that violence will peter out and North can forget about parading for a whileTue Jul 16 2013 - 05:00
