Unionist hardliners are urging Carla Lockhart to challenge Gavin Robinson for the DUP leadership. Splits in the party over its response to the Drumcree parade ban have led to loyalists pushing the Upper Bann MP to take on Mr Robinson...
An ex-IRA prisoner turned boss of a high-profile government-funded charity provided a court character reference for a cocaine baron who was supplied by the Kinahan cartel. Jim McCarthy’s support for organised crime boss Joe ‘Quiet Man’...
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell’s opening words when we meet downstairs at the Radisson Hotel aren’t “Sláinte, motherf***ers” — a phrase made famous by Michelle Mallon, the character she plays in Derry Girls. Instead, she says: “I’ll have a cup of tea...
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell’s opening words when we meet downstairs at the Radisson Hotel aren’t “Sláinte, motherf***ers” — a phrase made famous by Michelle Mallon, the character she plays in Derry Girls. Instead, she says: “I’ll have a cup of tea...
Counterintuitive as it seems, many senior unionists — and even some top Orangemen — will have been quietly delighted when, late on Friday evening, the Garvaghy Road parade was banned. Not one of these people will say so; some of them will...
Last week, the scale of the own goal scored by politicians over a multi-sports stadium at the old Maze Prison was brought into sharp focus as Windsor Park welcomed a full house for a Northern Ireland football match but wasn’t big enough to...
Unionist hardliners are urging Carla Lockhart to challenge Gavin Robinson for the DUP leadership. Splits in the party over its response to the Drumcree parade ban have led to loyalists pushing the Upper Bann MP to take on Mr Robinson...