Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent attacks and intimidatory protests took place.  This vic...

BOBBY SANDS was the most prolific writer of the republican prisoners in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest which lasted from 1976 until 1981. He was in prison for most of that time, being arrested in October 1976 and sentenced in Se...

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.

On June 20, 2001, Debbie Burleigh walked through the doors of Leslie’s as a quiet young woman who wasn’t even keen on going out to get lunch herself.

Faith Gould is part of a new generation of young women helping to shape the future of agriculture, combining strong family roots in farming with education, practical experience and active involvement in the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster (YFCU).

For Erica Johnston, art has always been there in the background.

Relaxing in my backyard a few nights ago, the rhythmic sounds of drumming practice drifted in my direction on a very light breeze.

From Oxford to Lough Melvin, from anorexia to a vibrant faith: Reverend Rebecca Guildea’s story is rooted in prayer, pink roses and a parish that has become her family.