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...

A day centre has opened a new garden as part of Learning Disability Week 2026.

Representatives from the Smartphone Free Childhood group are going to be invited to a forthcoming meeting of Mid Ulster District Council, to discuss a way forward to minimise the harmful impact of connected phones – smartphones – on teenagers.

Mid Ulster District Council has welcomed DAERA’s “From Waste to Worth: NI Waste Prevention Programme” draft consultation document.

Councillor Córa Corry has called on Mid Ulster District Council to be mindful of smaller localities within the district when planning community events.

Cloughfin Road, Cookstown, Quay Court, Ballyronan, and Cornamaddy Road, Dungannon, have passed the ‘majority test’ for English-Irish street signage provision, and as such will soon have bilingual street signs.