Earlier this month the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians, mostly women and children, brought again into sharp focus the scale of the genocide in the Gaza Strip. Only days ago, another mass funeral of 50 took place.  Those buried were recovered from ...

August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunge...

When a series of Sinn Féin and SDLP delegation meetings during 1987 and 1988 ended, both Gerry Adams and John Hume, then leader of the SDLP, continued to meet privately. Their dialogue became known as the Hume/Adams initiative, and culminated in ...

Cúig bhliain agus caoga ó shin ar an 9ú Lúnasa cuireadh imtheorannú gan triail i bhfeidhm sna Sé Chontae. Mharaigh Arm na Breataine deichniúr i mBaile Uí Mhurchú, Béal Feirste agus bhí na céadta ar an mbealach go dtí an Cheis Fhada, cuid...

Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye.

Notes to editors: I am planning to post several articles to do with the August 27 Southern HSC Trust board meeting focusing on the Trust Financial Plan 2026/27.

A man has been arrested after an assault in Omagh on Thursday.

A family-run Lisbellaw pub has been named the best in Northern Ireland by CAMRA and is now in the running to be crowned the best pub in the UK.

Fermanagh’s Marble Arch Caves have been named the best beauty spot in Northern Ireland for an autumn getaway, finishing ahead of the world-famous Giant’s Causeway in a new all-Ireland ranking.

A Leitrim businessman has bought an iconic Fermanagh school and is determined to breathe new life into it.