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

Eighty years ago on 26 June 1945 the Charter of the United Nations was adopted. It became a foundational legal document which committed the international community to work together to prevent future wars, uphold human rights and foster the conditions...

World renowned Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick has made a new portrait of 1916 activist Elizabeth O’Farrell, the Cumann na mBan nurse who famously braved British Army gunfire on Moore Street to take Pearse’s surrender note to the British forces, and...

One hundred years ago in June 1925 the first paper to bear the title 'An Phoblacht' was published. It was to last for 12 turbulent years and to leave a legacy of lively campaigning republican journalism.

A century ago in the summer of 1925 the Boundary Commission established under the Anglo-Irish Treaty was hearing evidence on the ground in the Six Counties as it prepared its report and considered what changes if any should be made to the border that...

A loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, controversially topped with an effigy of migrants in a boat has been lit.

A MEETING of Save Our Acute Services (SOAS) has heard impassioned pleas from patients impacted by the removal of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) at South West Acute Hospital (SWAH).

Fr. Brian D’Arcy has said that the people of the county are facing their "last chance" to save Emergency General Surgery (EGS) at SWAH amid a consultation exploring the permanent removal of the service. 

THE story of Fermanagh man Mark McGuigan has been used as an example of how the removal of Emergency General Surgery at South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) is impacting patients.

A SECOND consultation event is being held by the Western Trust in relation to the permanent removal of Emergency General Surgery (EGS) at SWAH.