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GAA club poster among bonfire items being investigated in Co Derry

Police have confirmed they are investigating a number of incidents in which items were placed on Eleventh Night bonfires and alleged 'sectarian chanting' occurred. Amid details of the incidents throughout Northern Ireland, there are eight separate ...

03 Aug 2022 at 13:33

Features

The evolving celebrations of Twelfth Night, the Epiphany and Nollaig na mBan

Whether you think of it as Twelfth Night, Nollaig na mBan or the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6 is widely accepted as the end of the Christmas season. Like so many notable dates in our calendar, its origins are quite ancient and far predate ...

06 Jan 2023 at 11:33

Northern Ireland

BBC decision to drop live Belfast Twelfth coverage ‘devoid of logic’

The Orange Order has described a decision by the BBC not to provide live TV coverage of Twelfth of July celebrations in Belfast as “devoid of logic”. BBC NI has confirmed that it will not feature live coverage of the city demonstration this ...

10 Jun 2022 at 16:49

Arlene Foster expands role at GB News, saying it’s vital NI voices are heard

Baroness Arlene Foster is set to become a regular presenter on GB News alongside making documentaries for the broadcaster, it has been announced. The former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and first minister of Northern Ireland, 52, ...

05 Mar 2023 at 17:02

Northern Ireland

‘Unprecedented’ attacks on 11 ambulance staff condemned as disgraceful

Eleven on-duty ambulance staff were assaulted over an “unprecedented” six-hour period on the eve before and in the early hours of the Twelfth of July. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said that the assaults took place at four ...

13 Jul 2023 at 11:57

Ireland

Actions of some over Twelfth bring ‘shame on us all’ – Beattie

A number of incidents around the Twelfth celebrations in Northern Ireland have damaged and brought shame to unionist culture, Doug Beattie has said. The Ulster Unionist leader also said that those who complain about pro-IRA singing but ...

13 Jul 2023 at 15:41

Northern Ireland

Police investigate arson attack on Aontu member’s car as ‘sectarian hate crime’

Police are investigating the burning of a car at the home of an Aontu representative in Newry as a sectarian hate crime. The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday following July 11 loyalist bonfires across Northern Ireland ...

12 Jul 2023 at 12:05

Secretary of State urged to help find resolution to Drumcree dispute

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has been urged to intervene to help find a resolution to a 25-year-old Co Armagh parading dispute. Members of the Orange Order have staged an annual protest during the Drumcree parade in ...

09 Jul 2023 at 23:09

Ireland

Overwhelming majority of unionists oppose burning image of Taoiseach – Donaldson

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said he believes the overwhelming majority of unionists oppose the placing of an Irish flag and a picture of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on a loyalist bonfire. Police are investigating the incident at ...

10 Jul 2023 at 10:13

Northern Ireland

Image of Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill placed on loyalist bonfire

An image of Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O’Neill has been placed on a bonfire in Co Tyrone. The picture, along with Irish flags, appeared on the pyre in the Eastvale area of Dungannon on Tuesday evening as bonfires in loyalist ...

11 Jul 2023 at 23:32

Novelist Joan Lingard who was born on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile dies aged 90

Award-winning author Joan Lingard has died at the age of 90. Ms Lingard wrote about 60 novels for children and adults throughout her life with many of them set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. She was born in the back of a ...

14 Jul 2022 at 21:34

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Unionist leader tells Taoiseach to choose between moving forward and 'Irish cold war'

Orange Order leaders have said there can be no return of the Stormont Assembly until the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol is scrapped. Marching bands from Orange lodges have been parading through villages, towns and cities ...

13 Jul 2022 at 18:33

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