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Man who fell from Belfast ‘party bike’ and later died is named

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David Healy gets a kiss from Northern Ireland team attendants Terry Hayes and the late, Derek McKinley during a Euro 2008 qualifier against Denmark at Windsor Park in Belfast.

Legendary Northern Ireland kitman Derek McKinley remembered

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Judge relaxes curfew terms for ‘career criminal’

Crime

Britain's Got Talent posters removed from Belfast City Council after Union flag complaints from staff

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Brexit: DUP says choice between bad deal and right deal

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Man ‘stubbed out cigarette on ex-partner and threatened to burn down house’

Crime

Man jailed for not paying £94 food and drink bill

Crime

Young son ‘saved mother from being strangled’

News

Christmas is just round the corner - and it shows in Belfast

10 signs Christmas is on its way in Northern Ireland

News

Border

Karen Bradley warns no-deal Brexit will mean WTO customs checks in Ireland

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Politics More Politics >>

Brexit: DUP says choice between bad deal and right deal

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Alex Kane

Alex Kane: What unionism needs now is clarity and cool-headed thinking

Opinion

The Garda keeps no record of the religion of its officers, something Commissioner Drew Harris plans to change

Garda has no religious breakdown statistics ‘despite Dublin lectures to NI’

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Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann (left) with Fine Gael Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan, during the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, City West Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.

Robin Swann tells Finn Gael conference: Be cautious over Brexit

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Crime More Crime >>

Judge relaxes curfew terms for ‘career criminal’

Crime

Man ‘stubbed out cigarette on ex-partner and threatened to burn down house’

Crime

Man jailed for not paying £94 food and drink bill

Crime

Samuel McKinley was arrested yesterday after absconding during an unescorted day release on Thursday

Call for review after third killer absconds from jail this year

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

UFU gives cautious welcome to Brexit agreement

Farming

Brian Irwin

Brexit: Draft withdrawal agreement is best option - NIFDA

Farming

The scene of the fire outside Toomebridge.Pic Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Man dies in fire at Co Antrim farmhouse

Farming

Fermanagh farmer is first to be convicted for BVD-related offences

Farming

Education More Education >>

Integrated school to use academic selection for a third of pupils

Education

Local parents call for integrated education

Education

St Patrick's Primary School, north Belfast. Pic by Google

Teachers to strike over ‘culture’ at school

Education

In Catholic doctrine Limbo was believed to be the destination for unbaptised babies who died.

Significant decline in the belief in ‘Limbo’

Education

Business More Business >>

Facebook to fund 80 trainee local journalists in £4.5M scheme

Business

Traffic delays

Traffic: Belfast lane closure causing knock-on delays

Transport

Alan McCulla OBE, chief executive of the Anglo-North Irish Fish Producers Organisation. Pic by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com

Brexit deal: Fishing industry body welcomes draft agreement as ‘an important first step’

Business

Cross-border card charges cost Britons �166m in 2015.

Ban on card fees has boosted transactions says Mastercard

Business

Transport More Transport >>

Traffic: Belfast lane closure causing knock-on delays

Transport

The A5 road between Londonderry and Aughnacloy.

Future of A5 Londonderry to Aughnacloy cast into doubt after High Court decision

Transport

The crash occurred on the M1.

M1 collision causing major delays

Transport

The Cookstown Road is closed in both directions.

Road traffic collision closes busy NI road

Transport

Stopped in traffic

Traffic and travel: Belfast motorists asked to avoid unusually heavy traffic' on city route

Transport

Environment More Environment >>

Concerns over green energy scheme in Northern Ireland

Environment

The report said badger culling had 'a real but modest effect' on bTB

Farmers challenged to do more to halt spread of bovine TB

Environment

Raw sewage at Craigavon City Park

Raw sewage bubbles up into City Park

Environment

Research has found Protestant farmers are more likely to be in the dairy sector than their Catholic neighbours

More Protestants farming than Catholics, research finds

Farming

Image of the proposed York Street Interchange, taken from a screen grab of the video on this website: http://www.yorkstreetinterchange.com/

York Street Interchange facing more delays after judgement

Crime

Health More Health >>

Hospital chaplain who suffered cardiac arrest thanks colleagues for saving his life

Health

Players from the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland football squads came together today to visit Ireland's largest paediatric hospital, Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Dublin, to support children with cancer and to highlight the work of medical and caring staff who help to fight the disease.'Northern Ireland's Steven Davis and Jonny Evans with Republic of Ireland's Shane Duffy and David Meyler visited 2 year old Ellen Meehan at Ireland's largest paediatric hospital, Our Lady's Children's�Hospital�Crumlin, to encourage young people who have cancer and to highlight the work of medical and caring staff who help to fight the disease.

Players from Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland in joint Dublin hospital visit

Health

Councillor Julie Flaherty

Stopping NI baby post-mortems ‘cruel and inhumane’

Health

Baby feet

NI child autopsies to be moved to Liverpool

Health

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Briton dies after being bitten by rabid cat

Health