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 36-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a man in Co. Leitrim following an incident earlier this week.

Children under age 16 will be banned from social media in a “big moment for our country”, Sir Keir Starmer said.

A social media ban for under 16s will come into place next year.

Mr. John Irwin Dickie Johnston JP, widely known as Jack Johnston of Clogher, has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to local history across Northern Ireland and the adjoining border counties.

The community of Tamlaght is mourning the passing of Shirley-Ann Lyons, who passed away peacefully on 14 June 2026