Earlier this month the mass funeral of 112 Palestinians, mostly women and children, brought again into sharp focus the scale of the genocide in the Gaza Strip. Only days ago, another mass funeral of 50 took place.  Those buried were recovered from ...

August 20th marks the death of Michael Devine, the 10th republican hunger striker to die in 1981. Born in Derry, Devine grew up in the tumult of the civil rights protests, internment and Bloody Sunday in January 1972. He died after 60 days on hunge...

When a series of Sinn Féin and SDLP delegation meetings during 1987 and 1988 ended, both Gerry Adams and John Hume, then leader of the SDLP, continued to meet privately. Their dialogue became known as the Hume/Adams initiative, and culminated in ...

Cúig bhliain agus caoga ó shin ar an 9ú Lúnasa cuireadh imtheorannú gan triail i bhfeidhm sna Sé Chontae. Mharaigh Arm na Breataine deichniúr i mBaile Uí Mhurchú, Béal Feirste agus bhí na céadta ar an mbealach go dtí an Cheis Fhada, cuid...

Thomas McElwee, at the age of 23, was the tenth man to join the 1981 Hunger Strike. From Bellaghy in south Derry, he was imprisoned in 1976 after a premature bomb explosion in which he lost an eye.

Conservationists are celebrating the birth of a “bounty of barn owl chicks” in Fermanagh.

Veteran Belcoo athlete and one of Fermanagh’s most eclectic sportsmen, Tony McGourty is taking part in a 13-mile run in aid of a very worthy cause.

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Two people have been arrested after a woman was threatened at knife point in Dungannon on Tuesday afternoon.

Ulster Unionist Party Chair Lord Tom Elliott has welcomed a High Court judgment quashing a Parades Commission determination relating to the long-running Drumcree parading dispute.