Protesters Take to The Streets of Belfast to Support Soldier F

Protesters Take to The Streets of Belfast to Support Soldier F

Protesters opposed to the prosecution of a former British serviceman for alleged Troubles offences have gathered outside Belfast City Hall. Soldier F is to be charged with murdering two people after troops opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry...
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Adi Roche Calls for Nobel Peace Prize for Chernobyl First Responders

Adi Roche Calls for Nobel Peace Prize for Chernobyl First Responders

Ireland’s Chernobyl Children International is at the center of a UN commemoration ceremony in New York tonight. A message from President Michael D Higgins has been read and a minute’s silence held, to remember the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl...
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Liverpool Leapfrog Man City After Demolition Job on Huddersfield

Liverpool Leapfrog Man City After Demolition Job on Huddersfield

Liverpool’s title destiny may still be out of their hands but they refuse to submit, with the 5-0 demolition of Huddersfield a reminder they are ready to pounce should Manchester City slip up. The gap between top – the place...
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New Talks to Restore Power-Sharing to Begin on May 7

New Talks to Restore Power-Sharing to Begin on May 7

Talks on the restoration of the power-sharing institutions in Northern Ireland are to resume on May 7, Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has said. In a joint press conference in Belfast with the Tánaiste Simon Coveney, Ms Bradley announced that...
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Overseas Visits to Ireland Up by Over 5% in First Quarter of 2019

Overseas Visits to Ireland Up by Over 5% in First Quarter of 2019

CSO data published today shows that the number of overseas visits to Ireland for the first quarter of 2019 increased by 5.5% compared to the same period in 2018. Responding to today’s CSO figures, Fáilte Ireland’s CEO Paul Kelly, said:...
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Premier League Hits Record Revenues but Gap Between the Top and Bottom Grows

Premier League Hits Record Revenues but Gap Between the Top and Bottom Grows

Premier League clubs made record revenues last season but rising wages cut into profits as ‘the big six’ continued to pull away from the pack in financial terms. With all of last season’s accounts now filed at Companies House, financial...
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Superquinn Founder Feargal Quinn Dies, aged 82

Superquinn Founder Feargal Quinn Dies, aged 82

Superquinn founder and politician Feargal Quinn has died, aged 82. He passed away peacefully at his home in Howth, Co Dublin, after a short illness. Mr Quinn established the Superquinn chain of supermarkets in 1960 and served as a Senator...
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Calls for UK Government to Address Abortion Laws in The North

Calls for UK Government to Address Abortion Laws in The North

The UK government must respond to a court ruling that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws are in breach of human rights laws, the Women and Equalities Committee has said. The Commons committee called for the government to set out its timetable...
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Manchester City One Step Closer to Retaining Title After Derby Win

Manchester City One Step Closer to Retaining Title After Derby Win

Manchester City took a potentially decisive step towards retaining their Premier League title with a vital and hard-fought 2-0 derby win over Manchester United. Second-half goals from Bernardo Silva and substitute Leroy Sané killed off a fired-up United side ...
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Arsenal’s Away Day Woes Continue at Molineux

Arsenal’s Away Day Woes Continue at Molineux

Arsenal’s away form remains their Achilles heel in their challenge for a top-four finish in the Premier League after they were put to the sword by Wolves. A draw would have been good enough for the Gunners to go above...
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