The state of public finances and ability to deliver decent public services in the north are facing unprecedented challenges.  For 14 years from 2010, successive British Tory administrations imposed austerity on the north. The financial allocation f...

Book Review: ‘Choosing the Struggle’ by Martina Anderson. Published by Beyond the Pale.

IRA Volunteer Kieran Doherty, TD for Cavan/Monaghan, died at 7:15pm on Sunday 2 August 1981, the day after Kevin Lynch’s death. Kieran had joined the hunger strike one day before Kevin Lynch and survived one day longer.

“The hardest place to be an Irish Republican at that time was in Britain” - Republicans in London and South Derry mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Derek Highsted.

He spent 71 days on hunger strike from 23 May 1981. He died on 1 August 1981.

A woman in her 20s has been airlifted to Sligo University Hospital following a three-vehicle road traffic collision on the N3 Ballyshannon to Belleek Road.

Gardaí and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road traffic incident on the Belleek Road in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

A motorcyclist is in a critical condition in hospital following a single-vehicle road traffic collision in Lisnaskea.

A 21-year-old man arrested following a four-vehicle road traffic collision in Irvinestown has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.

For many 11-year-olds, the summer holidays mean a break from school, a holiday and maybe a trip to the beach.