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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

Belfast City Hall

Belfast City Council turns down LGBTQ St Patrick’s Day parade invite

Suzanne Wylie, Chief Executive, NI Chamber; Tanya Anderson, head of business deposits, Bank of Ireland UK and Kevin O'Hara, head of procurement, Navantia UK - Harland & Wolff, highlight the forthcoming NI Chamber 2026 Meet the Buyer event

300 local firms to pitch for new contracts at NI Chamber’s Meet the Buyer

Shankill Leisure Centre

Emergency meeting called on Shankill Leisure Centre

A depiction of the Irish Famine.

Belfast Council to develop programme of commemoration for the Famine

Susan O'Kane, head of regional business for the Belfast City Region, Invest NI, councillor Joe Duffy, chair of Belfast City Council’s City Growth and Regeneration Committee and Cara Dallat, centre director at the Innovation Factory

Former Mackie’s factory site marks 10 years as west Belfast business hub

The 13th Belfast International Tattoo attracted some 10,000 people over two days to the 02 Arena earlier this month.

Belfast Tattoo criticises Tourism NI and Belfast Council for lack of support

Councillor Joe Duffy, chair of Belfast City Council’s City Growth and Regeneration Committee, joins recent Employment Academy graduates to highlight free events next week to connect Belfast jobseekers to employment opportunities

Free Belfast roadshows to connect jobseekers with new career opportunities

East Belfast Football has been granted permission for the 'bring your own alcohol' dinner

Belfast football club given permission for ‘bring your own booze' dinner

Cricklewood Crescent, Stranmillis, Belfast

BBC journalist backs 'vulnerable' elderly resident in planning dispute

Flooding in Belfast earlier this year

Belfast at 'massive risk' of flooding according to city council officials

Public views given on dog walking proposal

Ards and North Down says 'no' to four dog walking limit

SDLP leader Claire Hanna MP speaking at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, ahead of her party's conference.

SDLP has ‘turned a corner’ ahead of 2027 election, says leader Claire Hanna

Susan O’Kane on Belfast’s transformation into an innovation-led economy

From shipbuilding to cybersecurity...the changing face of Belfast business

DUP councillor Sarah Bunting gave an emotional speech about having two miscarriages to explain why she opposes the illumination of City Hall.

Divisive vote sees City Hall to be illuminated for abortion -

There have been plans to light Belfast City Hall green to show support for International Safe Abortion Day

Letter: Abortion of tiny infants is nothing to celebrate
A letter from Gordon McNeill:
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Councillors have complained that just one resident objecting to double yellow lines can halt plans to put them in a cul de sac

Council in bind over double yellow line policy

Parts of Belfast city centre were pedestrianised during the recent fleadh

Belfast council proposes pedestrianisation of Donegall Place and Castle Place

George Best Belfast City Airport aims to push back its hours of operation

Belfast City Hall is to be lit in green in support of International Safe Abortion Day next month.

Pro-life group to protest Belfast City Hall's abortion campaign light-up

CGI of new multi-purpose berthing facility for cruise ships to the city at land on Airport Road West in the Harbour Estate

New Belfast cruise facility and 13-storey aparthotel among plans approved

Northern Ireland electrical firm Sunbelt Rentals has revealed the scale of its behind-the-scenes role in helping Belfast deliver this year’s record-breaking Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

NI electical firm reveals key role in delivering record-breaking Belfast Fleadh

Planning permission has been granted by Belfast City Council for the redevelopment of Capital House. Pictured is CGI visualisation of the approved redevelopment

Former Belfast BT HQ set for multi-million transformation after planning yes

The site of the first football match in Ireland - now the home of Rosario FC in Belfast. Photo by Google

Belfast plan to mark 150th anniversary of the first football match in Ireland

A showcase of Ulster-Scots musical culture took place on Belfast's Titanic Slipway as part of the all-Ireland Fleadh

Letter: Great to see loyalist bands take part in the Fleadh

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Plans to transform Belfast office block into 105 homes, shops and restaurants

Lotus Property acquires Library Street site in Belfast with plans for new city centre homes. Credit Google maps

'Important step': NI developer submit plans for 170 affordable homes in Belfast
Lotus Property begins public consultation on proposed residential-led scheme for Library Street as it looks to help tackle the city's housing shortage
Claire Cartmill

Plans have been submitted to demolish McKenna's in Ballysillan

Belfast pub earmarked for demolition as plans lodged for 14 new apartments

The smashed window at The Pocket in Belfast city centre, which stands opposite the city's main police station

Burgled business owner says drug problem in Belfast city centre getting worse

Repair work is now under way at Belfast's historic Assembly Rooms.

Repair work starts at Belfast's endangered 18th century Assembly Rooms

The bonfire on Meridi Street was ultimately lit last July

Judge rules Jamie Bryson has no right to challenge bonfire decision

On Willowfield Gardens in east Belfast, five times as many people oppose Irish signs as back them. Sinn Fein wanted the results recalculated under the nationalist party's interpretation of the system, which could see the signs built anyway. Image: Google

Anger as Sinn Fein 'totally rewriting policy' on Irish signs

Belfast Council hoped to set up drug testing at city festivals this summer, but have been blocked from doing so.

Drug testing at Belfast festivals blocked: 'No legal way for council to do it'

TUV's Ann McClure and legal representative Jamie Bryson pictured leaving the court after an earlier hearing

Date set for appeal against ruling on council Irish language policy procedures

Belfast City Council in partnership with the Belfast Labour Market Partnership is hosting a Job Fair in St George’s Market on Wednesday 24 June (11am-2pm)

'A fantastic opportunity': More than 70 employers to attend free NI job fair

New city centre hotels and residential nursing care facilities approved at council’s Planning Committee this month. Pictured is Cromac Place Nursing Home

Green light for two new Belfast hotels and residential nursing care facilities

Jamie Bryson

Jamie Bryson to intervene in legal action over controversial bonfire

Shoppers go about their business in Belfast City Centre. Belfast City Council and a trade union have clashed on the proportion of retail workers who keen to start working on Sundays - after the council voted to trial the measure this summer.

Council and union clash on whether retail workers want Sunday opening

Eric Hanvey at a rally for ethnic minorities in Belfast last year

Ex-Alliance councillor says Sinn Fein 'not being generous winners'

Ulster-Scots Agency Chief Executive Ian Crozier and Belfast Lord Mayor Tracy Kelly are joined by Lucy and Jack Semple of Hollymount Pipe Band at Grove Playing Fields.

UK Pipe Band Competition - must-see festival of energy, colour and sound

Economy minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald says she has 'welcomed a 13% increase in the support Tourism Northern Ireland is providing to this year’s feile. The minister is pictured with Kevin Gamble, director of the feile, and traditional musicians Cormac O Briain (seated) and Gerry Jones

Unionist parties react to Tourism NI increasing funding for feile

Private UK based property company Castlebrooke Investments is bringing forward a planning application for a new integrated residential neighbourhood in an historically significant six-acre area of central Belfast

Plans unveiled for new Belfast neighbourhood with 1,000 homes, hotels and shops

Ann McClure and Jamie Bryson pictured leaving the court after an earlier hearing

TUV member launches appeal in legal action over Belfast's Irish language policy

A trade union representing retail workers has once again emphatically opposed proposals by Belfast City Council to extend Sunday trading hours.

Union ‘disappointed’ at further Sunday opening talks

An artist's impression of the commemorative stone to mark Northern Ireland’s centenary which is to be installed in the grounds of Stormont

Letter: Five years on, still no NI centenary stone in place

The firm was fined at Belfast Magistrates Court today.

Supermarket fined £100k after employee dies following fall

A bid by Sinn Fein to block Belfast City Council signing up to the Armed Forces Covenant was defeated on Tuesday night

James Lawlor: A long road, but now we have equality for our Armed Forces

The statue to the IRA hunger striker, who was 27 when he died in 1981, was unveiled last year at the Republican Memorial Garden in Twinbrook, west Belfast, marking the 44th anniversary of the former MP’s death.

SDLP leader criticises fallout over Bobby Sands statue row

Councillor Paul Doherty has resigned from the SDLP

SDLP councillor resigns after party stance on Bobby Sands statue

Belfast City Council’s Planning Committee has agreed two Supplementary Planning Guidance masterplans identifying ‘Development Opportunity Areas’ in the city centre’s Cathedral and Northeast Quarter, and Sailortown, Greater Clarendon and City Quays. Pictured is Duke of York Cathedral Quarter

Belfast City Council agrees masterplans for key city centre regeneration areas

Plans to expand a petrol filling station and retail unit in east Belfast have been deferred following a proposed site visit, despite planning officials recommending the application for approval. Credit Clarman Partnership

Belfast petrol station expansion put on hold despite approval recommendation

Unionists have welcomed a court's decision which partially upheld objections to Belfast City Hall flying the Palestinian flag.

Unionists welcome court decision on flying Palestinian flag

The TUV's Ann McClure

Belfast City Council procedures on Irish language policy 'not unlawful'

...and the part of the memorial with the list of the names of the dead

First glimpses of Belfast's Blitz memorial as 85th anniversary approaches

Belfast City Council has the highest list of six-figure employees, at 10

Number of council managers with pay packets over £100,000 up on last year

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