Heartbroken parents want baby death probe
THE heartbroken parents of one of four babies who died in outbreaks of a killer infection in two hospitals have called for a public inquiry.The deadly pseudomonas bacteria claimed the lives of one baby...
View ArticleIAN PAISLEY: Long and winding road back to stability
“ARDUOUS, long and uneven” are the words used by the governor of the Bank of England to describe the path to economic recovery, as news broke that our national debt hit the £1 trillion mark for the...
View ArticleInvest NI beef up firm’s innovative farm design
A Co Londonderry farm supplies company has devised an innovative product for cows which is set to revolutionise the way they are accommodated.Toomebridge-based Northern Farm Supplies has been assisted...
View ArticleSpotlight on female experience and empowerment in provocative play
AMERICAN Eve Esler penned The Vagina Monologues in 1996 both as a celebration of female sexuality and a rallying call against sexual violence. It was about reclaiming ‘down there’ from any sense of...
View ArticleBobbie Hanvey shares the best of his photographic archive
VETERAN photographer Bobbie Hanvey has snapped the great and good, the obscure and the strange, the old and the young, poets and prelates, chimney sweeps and Orangemen and women walking with firewood...
View ArticleMcNarry quits UUP Assembly team
Ulster Unionist MLA David McNarry has announced this evening that he has resigned from the UUP Assembly group.The move comes after Mr McNarry revealed earlier this week that he had been in talks with...
View ArticleFirst Minister attends first GAA match
Stormont First Minister Peter Robinson has attended his first gaelic football match.In a significant development for community relations in Northern Ireland, he joined deputy First Minister Martin...
View ArticleMan dies in road collision
A man has died following a serious one vehicle road traffic collision on the A5 Omagh to Newtownstewart Road.The death happened in the early hours of Saturday 28 January. This collision around 1am and...
View ArticleMan, 77, died in fall from sling
AN elderly Bessbrook man died after falling from a sling when ambulance staff were taking him home from hospital, an inquest in Newry heard yesterday.James Hanna of Fountain Street in Bessbrook died on...
View ArticleAnger over ‘hidden away’ royal pictures
STORMONT’S only portrait of the Queen is among a series of royal images no longer on display at Parliament Buildings, it has emerged.And TUV leader Jim Allister has said it is “a disgrace” that such...
View ArticleFishermen: minister’s ideology is hurting us
SINN Fein’s agriculture minister has been accused of putting her republicanism ahead of the interests of local fishermen after “capitulating” to an EU demand.Michelle O’Neill has broken ranks with her...
View ArticleTributes paid to Lady Faulkner
A SERVICE of thanksgiving was held yesterday for Lady Faulkner of Downpatrick – widow of Northern Ireland’s sixth and last prime minister, Brian Faulkner – in the quaint rural Magherahamlet...
View ArticlePoots to brief MLAs on probe into baby deaths
NORTHERN Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots is expected early next week to give a full update on the investigation into the pseudomonas outbreak that has killed four babies.On Thursday, the parents of...
View ArticleBug found in third maternity unit
The bug responsible for the deaths of four babies in Northern Ireland has been found in the maternity unit of a third hospital.Separate outbreaks of the pseudomonas bacteria claimed the life of one...
View ArticleUUP in crisis as McNarry resigns
VETERAN Ulster Unionist Assemblyman David McNarry, pictured, dramatically resigned from the UUP Assembly group on Friday night after being disciplined by Tom Elliott.The UUP leader removed Mr McNarry...
View Article‘City of culture’ to host 2013 music festival
THERE has been widespread support for the decision to bring the 2013 All-Ireland music festival to the city of Londonderry.The decision is expected to bring £34m spending to the city. It is the first...
View ArticleTeen injured in city dog attack
POLICE have seized a dog and made one arrest after a pit bull-type dog attacked a 13-year-old boy in Armagh.The dog bit the boy on the legs on Lonsdale Road just before 7pm on Saturday. The boy was...
View ArticleOAP who died after bus stop fall is named
A PENSIONER who died after sustaining injuries at a Belfast city centre bus stop was named yesterday.John Hickey, who lived in the north of the city, died at the Royal Victoria Hospital on Saturday...
View ArticleDeadly bacteria found in third maternity unit
THE bug responsible for the deaths of four babies in Northern Ireland has been found in the maternity unit of a third hospital – the Ulster in Dundonald. Separate outbreaks of the pseudomonas bacteria...
View ArticleWomen latest victims of car hijacking crime
TWO women were the victims of car hijackings in Belfast over the weekend.A woman was held at knifepoint by two men as her car was hijacked in the east of the city on Saturday afternoon.The two men...
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