Last week a large number of local trade unionists, various MLAs, and Party workers rallied together outside Parliament Buildings in Belfast to call for progress on implementation of the ‘Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill’, which is being spearhead...

THURSDAY, 21 MAY 1981, witnessed the deaths of two more Hunger Strikers. Raymond McCreesh passed away at 2:30am. That evening, Patsy O’Hara died. The deaths of Raymond and Patsy – who had started the strike on the same day, died on the same day a...

Forty years after the killing of IRA Volunteer Séamus McElwain, former political prisoner, Sinn Féin MLA and republican activist Seán Lynch reflects on the man he knew, the conflict they lived through, and the political path that followed.

The death of Francis Hughes at the age of 25 on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh saw not the end of a legend but a new chapter in what was, by any measure, the story of one of the most fearless and tenacious guerrilla fighters of the 20th C...

There was huge interest among delegates to the presentation on the Triple Lock at last summer’s ICTU Global Solidarity School. As a result Dublin Council of Trade Unions organised a similar presentation for its delegates and a call for the Trade Un...

The Carrybridge RNLI lifeboat was launched at 9.48pm on Wednesday night, 12 June, after Belfast Coastguard requested assistance for two people on a broken-down personal watercraft around a mile downstream of Carrybridge.

Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Enniskillen in June 2012 was one of the most significant royal engagements ever to take place in County Fermanagh.

A man in his 30s has been charged as part of an ongoing Garda investigation.

An investigator who has worked on painstaking searches for those murdered and secretly buried by paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland is to become an MBE.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has denied that he attended a meeting in the 1990s with an alleged victim to nip her claims of sexual abuse against him “in the bud”.