THE death of IRA Volunteer Martin Hurson on 13 July 1981, after 46 days on the Hunger Strike, was unexpected. The suddenness of his death, coming only five days after that of Joe McDonnell, came as a shock since two other Hunger Strikers – Kieran D...

JOE McDONNELL was the fifth Hunger Striker to die due to the intransigence of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her government.

I have just returned from Washington, where Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald met with congressional members and Irish American and Trade Union leaders. In Congress, we met a cross-section of representatives from all shades of the Republican and...

The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone at Bodenstown was for long the site of the largest annual national gathering of republicans. Other events may since have overtaken it in numbers, but it remains the spiritual home of Irish Republicanism and a renewed ...

Two weeks ago, racist pogroms were mounted against ethnic minority and migrant people in greater Belfast, forcing families from their homes. Elsewhere in the north of Ireland, multiple violent attacks and intimidatory protests took place.  This vic...

Police have issued an appeal for information to help trace a 13-year-old girl who was last seen in Brookeborough on Saturday afternoon.

The Beltany Road between Newtownstewart and Omagh has been closed in both directions following a road traffic collision.

A thirty-one-year-old man has appeared before a special court sitting in relation to a number of domestic abuse charges, most of which culminated over a two day period last week.

A sea of colour descended on Enniskillen this weekend as Fermanagh Pride 2026 paraded through the town for a third year in a row.

Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is to launch an appeal after being convicted of a string of child sex offences.