2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (446+ words) A now struck-off neurologist had a “tendency to joke” with patients who had received devastating news, with families viewing him as “cocky” and even “doolally” in their interactions with him. The striking claims are among details in the final report…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1054+ words) On December 4, 1971, a bomb planted by the UVF exploded at McGurk’s Bar on North Queen Street in Belfast. The blast brought the family-run pub and home crashing down, killing 15 people, including two children, and injuring many others. The tragedy was…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (615+ words) A mother-of-six who recorded her teenage son rioting in the Broadway area of Belfast avoided an immediate prison sentence on Thursday. Michelle Greer was handed a 12-month sentence, which was suspended for three years, for a charge of cruelty to…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (396+ words) A Co Tyrone man pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a series terrorism charges, including attempted murder, dating back almost 40 years. Arthur John MacNally (73), of Minadinna Road, Sixmilecross, was called forward to the dock of Belfast Crown Court for his…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (439+ words) John Manley has spent the vast bulk of his 25 year-plus journalistic career with The Irish News. He has been the paper's Political Correspondent since 2012, having previously worked as a Business Reporter. He is a past winner of the CIPR's Business…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (823+ words) A former senior adviser to Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald says the party was concerned that a “lurch to the right” on immigration policy in the south would leave it “exposed” in the north. Writing in her book Ourselves…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (207+ words) A man in his 30s has been taken to hospital for treatment of two deep cuts to his face, following an assault in Co Antrim which police believe involved a blade. Officers received a report at around 7:30pm on Tuesday, of a…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (704+ words) YOU might think the provocative, preposterous demand to march along Garvaghy Road, which has so dismayed most people north and south, is to do with the DUP’s problems. Many on social media think so. They note that the demand was…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (816+ words) Alex Kane is an Irish News columnist and political commentator and a former director of communications for the Ulster Unionist Party. IN just over six months’ time – March 19 or 20 2027 – the Assembly will dissolve in preparation for an election on May…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (375+ words) The Orange Order has been accused of “hypocrisy” after it objected to dual language signs in nationalist areas it plans to march through. Earlier this year members of the Loyal Orders in the Co Armagh town launched a bid to…...