Last week a large number of local trade unionists, various MLAs, and Party workers rallied together outside Parliament Buildings in Belfast to call for progress on implementation of the ‘Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill’, which is being spearhead...

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day a...

Forty years after the killing of IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain, former political prisoner, Sinn Féin MLA and republican activist Seán Lynch reflects on the man he knew, the conflict they lived through, and the political path that followed.

The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th C...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School. As a result Dublin Council of Trade Unions organised a similar presentation for its delegates and a call for the Trade Un...

A County Tyrone man is to stand trial in relation to a fatal road traffic collision over four years ago which caused the death of three people.

Mid Ulster councillors have welcomed an initiative that will see vacant properties identified and listed throughout the district, however they have also expressed a degree of scepticism regarding the effectiveness of the scheme, since no funding will...

Seventeen-year-old Naoise McManus has etched her name into the history books after securing a landmark bronze medal for Great Britain at the 2026 United World Wrestling Sardinia Beach Wrestling Tournament.

Last Friday morning, my husband and I, as the late monarch, Queen Elizabeth11, was wont to say, attended not one but two particularly important events.

A convicted sex offender whose risk factor was raised after he continued a relationship with the mother of a child he sexually abused has admitted breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO).