He is expected to target legislative elections in Tamil Nadu state around June next year.

THE Wolfe Tones track Celtic Symphony has re-entered both the Irish and UK music charts in the wake of controversy involving the Republic of Ireland’s women’s football team.

A campaigner for victims of historical abuse who witnessed two teenagers being injured on Bloody Sunday has declined to be made an MBE.

Renowned historian Dr Éamon Phoenix has sadly died at the age of 69.

A LEADING solicitor who is battling coronavirus is understood to have been taken off a ventilator.

Nolan is a brand BBC Northern Ireland has invested in and nurtured to ensure it can compete with the detritus of social media

BOB Dylan has released an audio tribute to the victims of Bloody Sunday.

The musical group said that they had been denied ‘significant music funding because a Tory minister doesn’t like our art’.

LIAM Neeson has said he believes a united Ireland will happen in his lifetime, and that Britain will be "pleased" at the north no longer being part of the UK.

The family of Sinead O'Connor has thanked the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust for the charity's help in returning her body from England following the singer's death.

A foundation set up in memory of teenager Noah Donohoe has funded 500 children's breakfasts at a north Belfast cafe to help struggling families amid the cost-of-living crisis.

I recently came across an interview from 1974 on BBC NI’s online archive where the then new boss of the NI Tourist Board was asked if it was safe to visit Belfast.

FOR the first time in its history, The Irish News has climbed to the number one position in the UK and Ireland for combined print and digital sales.

THE JUSTICE minister last night urged the British government to stop engaging with the group that purports to represent loyalist paramilitary elements.

IMAGES of a Garda car driving through Co Tyrone which sparked an angry DUP response are more than two years old, it has emerged.

Mediator Scott Alexander was commenting after man who posted a "vile" video of Michaela McAreavery lost his unfair dismissal against his former employer. 

Paddy Kielty has called for an end to segregation of education along religious lines in Northern Ireland.

More people in Great Britain would be upset at the loss of the Falkland Islands from British control than Northern Ireland leaving the UK, a new poll has found.

THE PSNI and Queen's University have been unable to provide any information to substantiate claims by Sir Jeffrey Donaldson about recent intimidation of unionist students. The DUP leader made the...

A NEW public consultation on the prospect of Irish unity has opened in the north west.

Prominent Irish language campaigner Linda Ervine has agreed to take on the role of president at a planned new GAA club in east Belfast.

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been urged to retract allegations of intimidation against unionist students at Queen's after the university and PSNI said they had no knowledge of any incidents.

THE Bloody Sunday families have pledged to work with other victims’ groups around the world to oppose any British government attempt to close down legal actions against its military.

"How can Tourism NI go anywhere near something which celebrates [and] rejoices in an organisation which brutalised so many people?" The words of Stephen Nolan on his BBC Radio Ulster programme on the...

UNIONISTS feel an affinity with Israel.

NEW figures suggest that none of the north's six counties has an outright unionist electoral majority.

Guinness World Records say they have no plans to send an adjudicator to an Eleventh Night bonfire at the centre of a £9,000 fundraising drive.

It was perhaps too good to be true. The faint glimmer of self-awareness that led the Orange Order to admit that events around its flagship parade in Belfast were, in its own words "abysmal and...

A MARKETING consultant has complained that his comments made during a call to The Nolan Show have been deleted by the BBC.

CLAIMS that the protocol is forcing up the cost of living in Northern Ireland are unfounded or exaggerated, according to independent verification.

SIR JEFFREY Donaldson is coming under growing pressure to apologise for uncorroborated claims about the impact of the protocol on healthcare provision.

The 90-year-old mother of a Catholic schoolboy brutally beaten and shot dead by loyalists 50 years ago has told of how she is still haunted by thoughts of his cruel murder.

MI5 has made an application to withhold information from the inquest of murdered GAA official Sean Brown.

Unionists have been forced into an embarrassing climbdown after falsely claiming an underage GAA tournament in Co Tyrone was named after an IRA hunger striker. The Francie Hughes memorial Tournament,...

East Belfast Irish language teacher Linda Ervine has criticised a TUV local election candidate for putting "inflammatory" statements on social media in a bid to "raise tensions and win votes".

Liam Neeson has shown his support for the Kevin Bell Repatriation Trust at a fundraising event for the charity in New York.

The BBC found Nolan had a case to answer and "appropriate action" was taken following a complaint. 

‘SELF-serving bias’ is a term psychologists use when people take credit for the positive things in life but lay blame on others and external forces when things go bad.

“There is a constitutional obligation on the Irish government – including as a co-guarantor of the Agreement - to advance the objective of unity." 

Unionists talking about fixing the ‘present crisis’ are exhibiting their perennial myopia, their inability to see the wood for the trees.

THE DUP has been criticised for basing its economic case against the Northern Ireland Protocol on the evidence of just four businesses.

The family of a Cavan teenager who took his own life just two weeks after his 18th birthday have told of how he was targeted by bullies because his father was a Protestant.

Fiona Donohoe spoke at a rally on what would have been her son’s 16th birthday.

Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O’Neill has questioned why Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris had not targeted the pay cut to MLA salaries at DUP politicians

Unionists talking about fixing the ‘present crisis’ are exhibiting their perennial myopia, their inability to see the wood for the trees.

A FORMER British government press officer who previously campaigned on behalf of the Ulster Unionist Party is to publish a book making the case for a united Ireland.

He will be celebrated at the Rose d’Or awards next month.

Nolan sent sexually explicit images to staff, one of a series of revelations by the Irish News behind the scenes of his radio and television shows. 

The Orange Order has been banned from marching along the mainly Catholic Garvaghy Road this weekend.

Mr Mallon topped the poll in the Craigavon ward of Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.  

Andrew McDade said he had been unfairly dismissed from his job after an offensive song in the video sparked outrage.

TAOISEACH Leo Varadkar has been accused of "insulting nationalists" after describing Northern Ireland as "overseas" during a radio interview. The Fine Gael leader made the comment while discussing...

I’VE never been the sort of person who gets emotional about a flag.

NOAH Donohoe's family have spoken of their hurt at their supporters being labelled an "emotionally charged sectarian lynch mob".

ARLENE Foster has accused the current US administration of gaining its understanding of the north from the "Ladybird book of Irish republicanism".

AN SDLP councillor has suggested a pay cut for broadcaster Stephen Nolan to help reduce costs within the regional BBC.

At the end of the Troubles the British and the IRA each faced a harsh reality – they couldn’t win.

SENIOR Orangeman Mervyn Gibson has failed to substantiate a claim that the protocol has led to a marked increase in the cost of goods.

A PREGNANT woman has been forced to flee her Co Derry home after it was targeted by a loyalist gang in a sectarian attack.

THE mother of a schoolgirl who ran the gauntlet of loyalist protestors during the Holy Cross dispute has spoke of her pride that her daughter has graduated with a teaching degree.