ALEX KANE: Balancing act where nothing moves
IT’S been an odd week. Alliance, the party of social integration, walks away from cohesion, sharing and integration (CSI) talks.The DUP and Sinn Fein, insisting they support “proper sharing”,...
View ArticleRUC’s place in history secured
Police officers from around the world joined their local counterparts in Belfast yesterday to commemorate the courage and sacrifice of the RUC in the 90th anniversary year of its formation.There was a...
View ArticleFamily dismay at Michaela court trial
The family of tragic honeymooner Michaela McAreavey have said they are distressed and dismayed in the wake of a bid to delve into her private life at the trial of two men accused of murdering her.Court...
View ArticleGrandparents acquitted of killing Rebecca
There were dramatic scenes outside a Belfast courtroom after an elderly couple were acquitted of sexually assaultiung and killing their disabled granddaughter.Moments after trial judge mr Justice...
View ArticleSearch for boy at quarry
A SEARCH and rescue operation was launched last night for a missing teenager at a flooded quarry close to Strabane after a report that a teenager was in distress after entering the water.Three other...
View Article‘Caring and loving couple’ acquitted
THE case against an elderly Ulster couple accused of the manslaughter of their severely disabled granddaughter dramatically collapsed yesterday.David Johnston, 88, and his wife Sarah, 86, from...
View ArticleMcNarry responds in expulsion row
FORMER Ulster Unionist MLA David McNarry has launched a blistering attack on the party leadership, blasting it as a “self-serving and smug cabal”.The Strangford MLA spoke out publicly for the first...
View ArticleVictims ‘left feeling like an inconvenience’
ULSTER Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt says that if he was a Troubles victim he could “very easily feel like he was an inconvenience” to the recently revealed reconciliation talks led by Sinn Fein.At the...
View ArticleScorching sunshine was good while it lasted
NORTHERN Ireland’s heatwave looks set to come to an end today – after almost a week of temperatures in the mid-20s.The mercury is set to drop, with a cooler 12C forecast for this weekend, compared with...
View ArticleChurch ‘must earn respect of society’
THE new Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has called on the denomination to recognise that it no longer has a privileged position in society and must earn respect in order to be heard.The...
View ArticleFormer Secretary of State adds weight to tax debate
THE former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Lord John Reid of Cardowen, has added his support to calls for decision making powers on corporation tax to be devolved to the Northern Ireland...
View ArticleBelfast gorse fires were started deliberately
THE fire that has been raging on Belfast’s Cave Hill was started deliberately, the Fire and Rescue Service has said.The three acre blaze began at around 9.30pm on Monday and could be seen across the...
View ArticleIrish Open ‘set to be a near sell out’
NEXT month’s Irish Open golf championship at Royal Portrush is set to become a near sell-out.With Open champion Darren Clarke, US Open champion Rory McIlroy and former US Open champion Graeme McDowell...
View ArticleWhat I have could sink the UUP, says McNarry
DAVID McNarry has claimed that he has information which could “bring the Ulster Unionist Party tumbling down”.The UUP veteran, who was expelled by the party last week for breaches of discipline,...
View ArticleRadical changes for young drivers
YOUNG drivers are to be banned from carrying young passengers under radical changes to motoring rules previously rejected by a Stormont minister as an assault on civil liberties.In a series of detailed...
View ArticleDevastation at Strabane drowning
A STRABANE priest has spoken of the devastation being suffered by the family of a 17-year-old boy who has drowned in a water-filled quarry.Rhys Jack, from the Co Tyrone town, got into trouble on the...
View ArticleCross-border raids on brothels
More than 130 premises were raided and eight people arrested in a cross border operation targeting organised prostitution, criminality and money laundering.Police in Northern Ireland rescued three...
View ArticleUUP MLA Danny Kinahan says Diamond Jubilee ‘prime example of union bonds’
ON February 6, 1952, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ascended the Throne.Sixty years later she is our second-longest reigning Monarch and with God’s help will eventually surpass Queen Victoria’s record...
View ArticleNR GREER: Burying inconvenient news
IF there was no discrimination there would be no need for the sprawling Northern Ireland equality industry that leeches onto every vein of funding it can find and sucks up astonishing quantities of...
View ArticleMichaela trial: Confession read to court
A detailed confession statement given to police by one of two men accused of murdering honeymooner Michaela McAreavey was read at his trial in Mauritius on Wednesday.In it Avinash Treebhoowoon, 31,...
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