Ulster’s greatest receive New Year honours
A High Court judge, a consumer affairs expert and a 90-year-old woman are among the Northern Ireland New Years Honours recipients.Mr Justice Tom Burgess who is due to retire, is awarded the CBE for...
View ArticleSecurity alerts end in Antrim and Londonderry
Police said a device discovered in Portrush has been taken away for further examination.Homes were evacuated as police investigated a device at Glenmanus Park, Portrush where the road has now...
View ArticleChild hit by car
A child has been knocked down by a car in Co Antrim.Police said one car and a child pedestrian were involved in the collision on the Comber Road in Dundonald on Saturday.Diversions are currently in...
View ArticleSF man rejects murders claim
A SINN Fein TD has hit back at suggestions that he was involved in 50 murders.Dessie Ellis was linked to the deaths, according to documents uncovered by the Irish Independent.The Dublin North-West TD...
View ArticleAmbassador’s surprise over religious cleric
THE British Ambassador to Dublin expressed surprise that the then Roman Catholic Cardinal seemed “a sincerely religious character” when they met in February 1982.Leonard, later Sir Leonard, Figg wrote...
View ArticleNew drug to be available in NI
HEALTH chiefs are set to make a potentially revolutionary cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment accessible to patients in Northern Ireland.Kalydeco has been hailed for targeting the underlying cause of the...
View ArticleYoung man escapes in Ards arson attack
A PETROL bomb attack on a home in Newtownards has been condemned by local politicians.Police say that a brick and a petrol bomb were thrown into the house on Movilla Street on Friday night while a man...
View ArticleToddler hit by car ‘worsening’ in hospital
THE condition of a two-year-old child hit by an unoccupied car which rolled into him is worsening in hospital.A 31-year-old man was arrested after an unoccupied parked car rolled into a woman and the...
View ArticleKincora file conspicously absent from government records
AMONG the hundreds of files from 1982 released at the Public Record Office in Belfast, there is no file on the Kincora scandal.The serial abuse of boys at the home for orphans had emerged publicly in...
View ArticleRobinson plan similar to that of Molyneaux
A PAN-unionist forum announced by Peter Robinson three months ago was unveiled by Jim Molyneaux in 1981 but came to little.Mr Robinson used a speech to a joint DUP-UUP Ulster Covenant centenary dinner...
View ArticleMP ‘had discreet terror links’
A BRIEFING note for about the maverick north Down unionist MP Jim Kilfedder informed the Secretary of State that he had “discreet links” with paramilitaries and was rumoured by opponents to be...
View ArticlePSNI confirm officer targeted with car bomb
Police have confirmed that a viable bomb has been found under an officer’s car in east Belfast.The security alert on the Upper Newtownards Road in the east of the city saw a number of homes evacuated...
View ArticleTensions over pay
Pay will continue to cause tensions in the workplace in 2013, an industrial relations expert has warned.John Taylor, chief executive of the conciliation service Acas, said the struggling economy,...
View ArticleStay away, protesters tell BNP
THE British National Party has been warned to stay away from protests in support of the Union Flag being flown at Belfast City Hall. BNP leader Nick Griffin has expressed support for flag protesters...
View ArticleMcGuinness formally resigns Westminster seat
Martin McGuinness has resigned as Mid-Ulster MP.He said the decision was in line with Sinn Fein’s commitment to end double jobbing and planned to concentrate on his job as Stormont MLA and Deputy First...
View ArticleRenewed appeal for information on missing man
A renewed call has been made for information relating to the disappearance of a man who went missing almost exactly one year ago.Samuel Campbell left his home in Kells, shortly after 2pm on New Year’s...
View ArticleCameron’s future role is uncertain
PRIME Minister David Cameron is surprisingly upbeat in his message for 2013, asserting that UK citizens can look forward to a new year with “realism and optimism”.After 12 months acknowledged by the PM...
View ArticleUlster physicist tells of Higgs boson find
The Belfast physicist who helped find the Higgs boson has said progress was made far faster than expected.Steve Myers said the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva outstripped its competitors in the...
View ArticleCan the dissidents be stopped?
After a year that began with police officers being urged to step up their personal security, and ended with a foiled bomb attack on a policeman’s car, can 2013 see the dissident republican campaign...
View Article‘Viable device’ found in Tandragee security alert
Police confirmed that an object which sparked a security alert near a Co Armagh police station was a ‘viable device’.The Armagh Road in Tandragee was closed to traffic as police investigated the third...
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