Today’s downsizers are closer to 70 and in no mood to rewire and replaster. They want a new build, which means they’ll be outbidding younger couples on a three-bed semi
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 is opposed by many victims’ groups
Row over Belfast’s Grand Central Station adding Irish to displays and ticket machines reinforces Assembly’s vulnerability to identity politics
Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee scrutinised hospitals, roads and other works
Plan for signs prompted dispute among Stormont Executive ministers
DUP leader Gavin Robinson says installation of signage is ‘clearly a controversial matter’
Northern Ireland facing a ‘mounting list of problems in healthcare, public finance and other aspects of good governance’, new report says
Concern in Stormont over Rachel Reeves’ spring statement as higher numbers of people rely on welfare support in NI than UK average
Labour’s proposed ‘shake-up’ of the welfare system raises the prospect of people with disabilities losing supports for their personal independence
People Before Profit’s Gerry Carroll says he will not be deterred ‘by a pathetic minority who skulk around under cover of darkness’
Committee highlights particular concerns around segregation and access to adequate housing
Hundred-page document outlines plans to tackle North’s spiralling waiting lists
Ministers rubber-stamp the governance plan during a virtual meeting
Keir Starmer has been advised to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP, which could be paid for by slashing social welfare
Housing orders for poultry and captive birds to come into effect across Ireland from midnight
Trump has transformed expectations of what can be done, even if his administration ultimately fails to deliver it
Labour is ‘more engaged’ with devolved institutions than Tories, Stormont’s First Minister says
There are worse fates for the agreement than fading into irrelevance, but it would be dangerous not to acknowledge this is happening
About 56,000 households in North were without electricity at 4.30pm on Monday afternoon, according to Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) Networks
Red warning in effect until 2pm with schools closed and tens of thousands of properties without power
DUP leader Gavin Robinson accuses UK government of ‘surrendering to EU diktats’
Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister
McDonald, Michelle O’Neill and Gerry Adams took turns carrying strategist and negotiator’s coffin to Belfast cemetery
Some 800,000 people made cross-Border journeys by cruiser, bicycle or foot - a story that Waterways Ireland’s chief John McDonagh says must be told more
Regarded as a shoo-in for the Seanad post, the current economy minister will quit his job in the Assembly once elected
Blair-era pledge of giving ‘my loyalty to the United Kingdom’ faced concerns in wake of Belfast Agreement
Preference for a united Ireland has risen from a quarter to a third. Support for direct rule is about 15%, while 10% want an independent Northern Ireland
Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years
MLAs are expected to continue measures, opposed by some unionists, for four years
Application by Jamie Bryson for leave for judicial review against Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn rejected in emergency hearing at Belfast High Court
The flax plant might be bland and its symbolism trite, but the same could be said of the Tricolour
DUP minister Gordon Lyons plays down reports of ‘tetchy’ meeting with GAA president Jarlath Burns
Teenager found dead in north Belfast storm drain owned by Stormont Department of Infrastructure in 2020, six days after he went missing
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