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.

The state of public finances and ability to deliver decent public services in the north are facing unprecedented challenges.  For 14 years from 2010, successive British Tory administrations imposed austerity on the north. The financial allocation f...

Police are appealing for information to help identify a young woman who may have been in the Old Mountfield Road area of Omagh on the evening of August 14.

An overnight break-in at Drumhaw Day Centre in Lisnaskea has forced the facility to close for the day, disrupting a vital service for older people in the local community.

Police are appealing for information following a number of thefts and burglaries reported across Fermanagh over the past week.

A convicted recidivist sex-offender only recently released from a custodial sentence has appeared in court on a raft of new charges, which appear to have commenced very shortly after

A 44-year-old man is to appear in court charged with possessing, making and distributing indecent images of children after a search of a house in Enniskillen.