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Jeremy Corbyn has said he has obtained a confidential report which "drives a coach and horses" through Boris Johnson's claim that there will be no border in the Irish Sea under his Brexit plan.

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Bryan Habana, the legendary Springbok winger, made an interesting comment after the Springboks defeated England in the final of rugby’s World Cup.

Industrial action in the Northern Ireland health service is set to escalate in the lead-up to Christmas after an “improved” pay offer was rejected by trade unions.

An independent councillor suspended for three months in a row over flags has lost his legal battle to overturn the sanction.

DUP leader Arlene Foster has called for an immediate return to Stormont to deal with the deepening crisis in the Northern Ireland health service.

A High Court challenge to huge cuts in Renewable Heat Incentive payments will not get under way until next year, it has emerged.

A victim of the 1996 Canary Wharf bombing has blamed successive governments for their mother’s suicide, saying it failed to offer any help to those struggling with injuries.

Pro-union voters must be offered an alternative to the politics of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken has said.

The General Election is an opportunity to punish Sinn Fein for failing to take seats at Stormont and Westminster, the SDLP leader said.

Last week, the Republic’s prime minister, Leo Varadkar, refused to rule out convening a ‘citizens’ assembly’ to consider the viability of a 32-county, all-Ireland state.

As chair of Changing Attitude Ireland, I would like to express our deep disappointment at the announcement of the decision by the House of Bishops to confirm the appointment of David McClay as bishop of Down and Dromore.

The anti abortion and republican party Aontú has criticised Sinn Fein for refusing to return to Stormont until there is a commitment to an Irish language act .

We are in the midst of a national election focussed on Brexit, yet here the primary focus of the lead party of unionism, the DUP, appears to be on a return to an unworkable Stormont.

Radiologists were left “standing around” waiting on patients who failed to turn up to more than half of the scheduled appointments in the Belfast Trust following confusion over the cancellation of appointments, a health union has said.

Secretary of State Julian Smith was last night under intense pressure to intervene in the health crisis amid renewed warnings that lives are at risk as industrial action intensifies.