The deterioration of Lough Neagh seems to continue unabated and it now threatens to intersect with another public health crisis, the rise of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the so called ‘Superbugs ...

It is said that history doesn’t actually repeat itself, but it often rhymes. The 1930s were in some ways similar to the recent decade; the settlement following the First World War was unravelling, and ...

Cormac Moore, the rather scratchy successor to the much missed and greatly lamented Eamon Phoenix as the historian of the Irish News, has a piece in the paper about BBC Northern Ireland’s bias down ...

Last Thursday, on BBC Northern Ireland’s The View, Claire Hanna turned her fire on the political settlement that has governed Stormont since the St Andrews Agreement of October 2006 — an arrangement ...

There is something deeply irritating about replacing something you already own. A bike lost or stolen and bought again. A carton of milk picked up at the shop, only to come home and find another ...

Mick looks at Claire Hanna’s direct if deliberately modest assault on the St Andrews settlement with three targeted institutional reforms — and she has done so at precisely the moment Sinn Féin can ...

Avoniel In December 2025, Paul Givan opened a new £16.5 million controlled primary school on Avoniel Road in East Belfast. The building — a Grade A listed structure designed in 1933 by Reginald S.

Mary McManus is the Regional Manager for Living Wage NI In 2001, in the City of London, faith leaders, union members and teachers staged a bold action in a major bank to demand a real Living Wage.

Originally from Clones Co. Monaghan, Houdi McCabe is a legend in his own mind. He worked as a Branch Manager with Dunnes Stores all over Northern Ireland for 42 years. Retired, he now writes and acts ...

There is something deeply irritating about replacing something you already own. A bike lost or stolen and bought again. A carton of milk picked up at the shop, only to come home and find another ...

For nearly four years, I trained as a retail store manager in Dublin. As 1985 arrived, I was offered a good opportunity in ...