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Leo Varadkar ‘intransigent’ in breaching Belfast Agreement for his preferred status for NI, says UUP

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Trevor Cooper was the head of DETI's finance division at the point when RHI was running out of control ' and was being criticised over the scheme

RHI Inquiry: Civil servant admits removing line criticising him ‘looks bad’

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Stormont civil servants are now operating without any democratic oversight

RHI Inquiry: Even when civil servants kept minutes, sometimes they were altered

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Ambulances were called to the scene

Principal thanks 'heroic response' from bus driver after special needs pupils involved in crash

Health

Colin Horner murder: Fifth man ordered to stand trial

Crime

Man accused of unprovoked stabbing ‘was only a Good Samaritan’

Crime

Roma fan cleared of GBH against Irish Liverpool supporter

Crime

Killers ‘not protected’ after RUC ice cream man murder: Police ombudsman

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Police

Man arrested under Terrorism Act released

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A Crucifix

Clerical sex abuse survivor 'interrogated' by benefits system

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Politics More Politics >>

Leo Varadkar ‘intransigent’ in breaching Belfast Agreement for his preferred status for NI, says UUP

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Trevor Cooper was the head of DETI's finance division at the point when RHI was running out of control ' and was being criticised over the scheme

RHI Inquiry: Civil servant admits removing line criticising him ‘looks bad’

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Stormont civil servants are now operating without any democratic oversight

RHI Inquiry: Even when civil servants kept minutes, sometimes they were altered

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Leo Varadkar

Leo Varadkar references IRA customs post bombing to highlight importance of border issue

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Crime More Crime >>

Colin Horner murder: Fifth man ordered to stand trial

Crime

Justice system

Man accused of unprovoked stabbing ‘was only a Good Samaritan’

Crime

Sean Cox suffered 'catastrophic injuries' in the attack before the Champions League semi-final

Roma fan cleared of GBH against Irish Liverpool supporter

Crime

Constable John Larmour in Portugal 1988, just months before he was murdered

Killers ‘not protected’ after RUC ice cream man murder: Police ombudsman

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

Live highlights from today’s highly anticipated Farming Life Awards

Farming

Chief Vet Robert Huey

BSE case in Scotland – no impact on Northern Ireland’s Negligible Risk status

Farming

British beef was banned from being exported to the E.U. for 10 years when mad cow disease gripped the nation back in 1996.

Case of mad cow disease confirmed on UK farm

Farming

Future funding arrangements under microscope

Farming

Education More Education >>

Northern Ireland schools ‘close to financial tipping point’

Education

Israeli ambassador to the UK Mark Regev speaking in Belfast earlier this year

Queen’s students oppose talk by Israeli ambassador

Education

Orange Order grand secretary Rev Mervyn Gibson pictured at the Museum of Orange Heritage in Belfast

Orange Order defends role in ‘raising educational attainment’

Education

Hillary Clinton during her address at a ceremony at Queen's University Belfast where she received an honorary degree

Hillary Clinton tells Northern Ireland parties to put their quarrels aside

Education

Business More Business >>

‘Brexit concerns hitting UK import export sector’

Business

Sales were up 3% on this time last year but the figure was short of forecasts

‘Stark slowdown’ in retail sales after summer peak,

Business

Launch of Farming Life Awards

Live highlights from today’s highly anticipated Farming Life Awards

Farming

Artemis Technologies CEO Iain Percy, with Secretary of State Karen Bradley MP, Belfast Harbour CEO Joe O'Neill and Mark Gillan, head of innovation at Artemis Technologies

Zero emissions shipbuilder opens new facility in Belfast

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Transport More Transport >>

PSNI at scene of road traffic collision

Transport

The incident is believed to be a road traffic collision.

NI road closed as PSNI deal with 'ongoing incident'

Transport

The power supply is due to be restored by 5:30pm.

Power outage at NI vehicle test centre sees dozens of MOT appointments cancelled

Transport

Air Ambulance Northern Ireland. (File Image)

Air ambulance tasked to scene of NI road traffic collision

Transport

There are reports of sheep running loose on the A1.

Sheep causing havoc on A1

Transport

Environment More Environment >>

Giant redwood is Northern Ireland’s Tree of the Year

Environment

Rev. Ruth Turner of Millbrook Church of the Nazarene, Dr. Jonny Hanson of Jubilee Farm, Rev. Colin McClure of First Larne Presbyterian, Rev. Chris Skillin of Larne Methodist Church get to work.

£300k community farm ‘first’ for Larne

Environment

Best of the Best: The Co Down village of Hillsborough won the overall top honour at this year's Best Kept Awards. Pic by Simon Graham

Village is crowned ‘Best of the Best’

Environment

Folk singer Colum Sands, right, with his son Dara outside the High Court in Belfast.''Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Folk singer Colum Sands loses legal challenge to nursing home plans

Crime

The seafront at Ballycastle

How safe is it to bathe at a beach near you? Full list revealed

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Health More Health >>

Principal thanks 'heroic response' from bus driver after special needs pupils involved in crash

Health

Pro-life protestors at a demonstration in Belfast

Abortion: Poll says two-thirds want NI politicians to decide law

Health

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Ambulance had to travel 37 miles to emergency in Larne

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Mairead O'Neill

Tragic top model Mairead O'Neill was ‘confident and fragile in equal measure’

Health

Bill Turnbull was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer in November last year

Bill Turnbull: Cancer a massive pain in the backside and relentlessly boring

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