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Editorial: People get on board with UK’s Be Ready plan

'I thought I might die' - Stephen Nolan describes car chase terror as he's back on the beat with the PSNI in new series of Peelers.

'I thought I might die' - Nolan car chase terror in new series of Peelers

Taoiseach Micheal Martin speaks to members of the media at an event marking the intersectionality between sport and politics at Tallaght Stadium in Dublin today

Taoiseach Micheal Martin calls for 'football to grow on an all-island basis'

Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir speaking at the Parliament Buildings in Stormont, Belfast, following the publication of a report into the controversial shooting of 51 cows in Co Tyrone, which were shot dead in June on land near Fivemiletown in a cull carried out by the Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural Affairs' (Daera) Humane Slaughter Team. Pic: Liam McBurney/Press Association

Muir: Cull was necessary due to ‘grotesque’ farm conditions

Ireland's prime minister Michael Martin (photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Taoiseach and tánaiste set to meet to discuss Irish unification

Ulster Farmers' Union President John McLenaghan said the report's wider conclusions "make for deeply concerning reading".

Officials acted lawfully over cattle cull – report

Fermanagh South Tyrone MLA Diana Armstrong.

Fivemiletown report highlights Daera 'shambles from start to finish' - UUP

Deborah Erskine speaking during a farmers protest at Stormont back in August. Pic: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Daera got it badly wrong on cattle cull – DUP’s Erskine

Upper Newtownards Road passes through both residential and shopping districts. Image: Google

Bid to build Irish signs over four miles of unionist area fails

Caoimhe Archibald has today announced measures to tackle the high price of home heating oil but Diana Armstrong (right) says they do not go far enough

Economy minister refuses to impose price controls on home heating oil

Michelle O'Neill with Sinn Fein MLAs Pat Sheehan (left) and Danny Baker speaking to the media in the Great Hall of the Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast.

O’Neill claims DUP ‘punishing children’ by blocking Bills over Drumcree row

Owners and managers of almost 180 reservoirs across Northern Ireland could face criminal prosecution, including prison sentences, under legislation being considered at Stormont today.

Reservoir owners could face jail if they breach new regulations

Pay-as-you-go 'superloos' like this one on Belfast's Custom House Square are out of order across the city, council reports state. Photo: Iain Gray/News Letter

Belfast toilet trouble: Spending a penny to cost £100k

Alliance Party deputy leader Eoin Tennyson said the unionist party had “weaponised children” as part of a “culture war”.

Alliance Party accuses DUP of ‘gambling’ with Stormont institutions

Education Minister Paul Givan said he is “concerned” about the impact of the measures on families.

School meals ‘not a luxury’, watchdog warns, as prices set to increase

Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast, Pat Sheehan.

DUP move to block Irish-medium education blatant sectarianism –Sheehan
An attempt by the DUP to block legislation around Irish-medium education proposed by a Sinn Fein MLA has been blasted as an “act of blatant sectarianism”.
Rebecca Black

Stormont Finance Minister John O’Dowd was pressed over the impasse as the Executive continues to insist on further funding from Westminster.

Budget stalemate at Stormont ‘cold comfort’ to workers awaiting pay uplift

Caoimhe Archibald said it is now “absolutely apparent” the Good Jobs Bill will not be progressing

NI employment law reform will not pass due to DUP blockage: minister

MLAs told basic human rights for children at stake

‘Bryson bounce’ not in Northern Ireland’s interests, says DUP leader

Workers balloted for industrial action over delay in pay uplift

Undoubtedly, this has been a difficult few years for unionism, writes Paul Givan

Paul Givan: ‘Time all shades of unionism acted with their head’

Jeffrey Donaldson and Paul Givan at an earlier count centre in Newtownabbey

Givan: ‘Utterly betrayed’ by Donaldson after sharing office

Margaret Thatcher had a rocky start but won three elections and spent more than eleven years in Downing Street

Simon Hamilton: Uber-fication of politics has made us all impatient

Morning View

Editorial: Horrific attack a reminder of dangers faced by our emergency services

UUP leader Jon Burrows MLA (third from left), has appealed to rival unionists to join his party. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Burrows: Unionism faces defining moment after decades of 'strategic gaffes'

A new documentary about the 1983 Maze prison break-out revealing first hand accounts from IRA prisoners and prison officers is to be screened at cinemas across Northern Ireland.

Maze film to reveal first hand accounts of IRA escapees and prison officers
A new documentary about the 1983 Maze prison break-out revealing first hand accounts from IRA prisoners and prison officers is to be screened at cinemas across Northern Ireland.
Philip Bradfield

Sicily Park. Image by Google

DUP bid to block Irish signs beside loyalist area fails

Morning View

Editorial: There is more to Remembrance Sunday than past

A funding boost of £40m agreed as part of a deal with GPs should make it easier to get appointments, the Health Minister says. Photo: Lightfield Studios - stock.adobe.com

New deal with GPs should make it easier to get appointments: Health Minister

Jimmy Speers ran his own garage outside his home in Desertmartin, Co Londonderry.

ICRIR appeal: Why were three children forced to cradle their dying father?

Shankill Leisure Centre. Proposals for new padel facilities at the centre have been opposed. Photo by Google

Shankill ‘no’ to padel court at leisure centre

A computer generated image of the proposed new leisure centre for Strabane.

Proposals for new leisure centre take a step closer in Strabane

Members of the Boys Brigade pay their respects at Dungannon Remembrance Sunday.

Remembrance Sunday: Dungannon remembers sacrifices of the fallen

Royal School Armagh Cadets as flagbearers in Armagh on Sunday. ND264537

Remembrance Sunday: Armagh Mall falls silent as city pauses

Fine Gael leader and Tanaiste Simon Harris speaking at the Ard Fheis at University College Cork. Picture date: Saturday November 7, 2026.

There is 'no one figure’ on cost of Irish unification, says Tanaiste

(left to right) Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant, Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Jayne Brady and Taoiseach Micheal Martin, during the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen. Picture date: Sunday November 8, 2026.

Taoiseach and Northern Ireland Secretary attend Enniskillen commemoration

Morning View

Editorial: PSNI faces huge challenges in changing world

UUP leader Jon Burrows MLA. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Burrows rejects PSNI claim that PIRA 'isn't seeking to bring harm to society'

This is an edited interview with Maurice Hayes, published as part of a collection of essays this week to mark 25 years of the PSNI.

Maurice Hayes on PSNI: 'Nationalists expected a massacre of the RUC'

MP Carla Lockhart, Jamie Bryson, and DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley outside Carleton Street Orange Hall in Portadown, back in September. Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Jamie Bryson hints at Stormont election bid in fiercely contested constituency

Speaking later on behalf of the Marchant family, loyalist activist Jamie Bryson insisted their case remains focused on what is in the report.

PSNI entitled to review 'Glenanne Gang' High Court judge rules

Chief Constable Jon Boutcher greets Taoiseach Micheal Martin as he arrives for PSNI graduation ceremony at the PSNI Training College, Belfast. Picture date: Friday November 6, 2026.

Taoiseach attends PSNI passing out event in historic first for an Irish premier

RTE presenter Sarah McInerney speaking outside the RTE headquarters in Dublin after staff at Ireland's national broadcaster were evacuated following a bomb threat at its television and radio headquarters. Picture date: Friday November 6, 2026.

RTÉ staff return to offices as garda probe bomb threat

Cutting the costs of welfare will require the government to spend more in other areas, like education, Andy Burnham has suggested.

Andy Burnham: ‘Welfare cuts will result in spending in other areas’

Some Irish political parties have an “aggressive, adversarial, triumphalist” approach to dialogue around Irish unity, the country’s premier Micheal Martin said. Photo:PA

United Ireland Dail debates are ‘aggressive and triumphalist’, Taoiseach says

Asked if she would raise objections with her London counterparts, Minister Helen McEntee said there was continued engagement with the UK Government.

Legacy legislation must not amend balance agreed with Dublin, says McEntee

(left to right) Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant, PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher and Taoiseach Micheal Martin speak to media following the PSNI graduation ceremony at the PSNI Training College, Belfast. Picture date: Friday November 6, 2026. David Young/Press Association

Martin: Sinn Fein could do more to urge Catholics to join PSNI

Northern Ireland is in danger of becoming used to the “abnormality” of its political system, Sir Chris Bryant warned as he signalled a desire to reform Stormont’s governance structures.

Northern Ireland risks becoming used to abnormal politics, says Bryant

Peadar Toibin used to be a member of Sinn Fein but fell out with the party in 2018, largely over its abortion stance

TD says he's not being obstructive by demanding PSNI interview in Irish language

Emma Little Pengelly said she was 'inseperable' with her friend Naomh Conlon, Nee Lavery.

Emma pays tribute to barrister friend after untimely death

Roselawn crematorium. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker

Thousands of new burial plots for Roselawn Cemetery as expansion continues

The Remembrance Sunday service at Belfast City Hall on Sunday November 10, 2024.

Lord Mayor of Belfast to lead Remembrance Sunday at City Hall Cenotaph

The data centre is close to the River Bann, on the edge of Ulster University's Coleraine campus

Protest against AI data centre as MP accuses objectors of 'howling at the moon'

Caoimhe Archibald's economy department has published reports on the impact of the Windsor Framework. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Stormont report highlights Protocol burdens and risks for businesses

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