A former Chief Veterinary Officer for Ireland will lead an external review into a Stormont department’s handling of a controversial cattle cull in Co Tyrone. Details of the review were announced by ...

A veteran Sinn Féin politician has blamed the Plantation of Ulster for the lack of delivery on the A5 road upgrade. Appearing on the BBC’s Stephen Nolan programme, the former Mid Ulster MP Francie ...

Offaly’s first ever All-Ireland winning captain Pádraig Horan has passed away at the age of 76. The Faithful beat Galway 2-12 to 0-15 in the 1981 decider, with Horan the man elected to raise the Liam ...

Mark English delivered another standout performance on the third day of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. Confident that he was the fastest male 800m runner in Europe this season, ...

The company behind the controversial former ‘Tribeca’ scheme in Belfast has confirmed plans for a 15-storey co-living apartment tower in the city’s Cathedral Quarter. Castlebrooke said its updated ...

Politicians and broadcasters are among the mourners who have started to arrive at the funeral service of former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe. Family, friends and colleagues are gathering at Buckfast ...

Britain’s electricity grid operator has cancelled its call to the industry to generate more power during Wednesday evening’s solar eclipse. The National Energy System Operator (Neso) had issued the ...

Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks will explore the extremes of male self-improvement for a new ITV2 documentary series. The pair will front Sam & Pete: Dying To Look Good where they will explore modern ...

Grouse shooting has been hailed as a “major contributor to the rural economy” as the season gets underway. Speaking on August 12 – the so-called “glorious twelfth”, when the red grouse shooting season ...

Music streaming platform Spotify has announced it is to label artificial intelligence-generated artists and remove them from its curated playlists. From mid-September, the platform’s users will begin ...

Aion is aiming to break into the supermini segment with its new UT. The Chinese manufacturer, which is part of the larger GAC Group, arrived in the UK with its V SUV but has now expanded its range ...

Simon Levy, 40, killed grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year, as his spiral of offending escalated from sexual assaults ...