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Huge crowds enjoy the Belfast Christmas lights switch-on on Saturday night

Belfast Christmas lights switch-on and opening of Christmas market - 16 images

Belfast City Council's policy on dual language street signs is under increased scrutiny from unionist parties on the council after News Letter revelations. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

UUP demand review of "undemocratic" Irish signs policy over equality advice row

People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration near the Israeli Embassy, in Kensingston, London: October 9, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Breakdown of pro-Palestine protests on Armistice Day in Northern Ireland

Firemen search through debris in the heart of Birmingham city centre following an IRA bomb attack. Two crowded pubs were blown apart in November 1974, resulting in the deaths of 21 people and leaving almost 200 injured. Picture: PA Archive

Samuel Morrison: The number associated with Birmingham should be 21 – not six

Northern Ireland explained why greater Belfast had suffered a loss of water supply today. Photo: Google Maps.

NI Water explains reason for loss of supply across Belfast today

The proposed new bridge for Belfast will link the Sailortown area to the Titanic Quarter

Irish government set to pay for new Belfast bridge

Belfast City Hall.

Belfast streets could close to traffic for children’s play

Belfast City Hall lit up for the anniversary of Conradh Na Gaeilge in July

Irish language tweet row resolved after DUP holds up posting of message

The count is underway in Belfast City Hall. Image: @belfastcc

Signs that voter turnout is significantly up in Belfast City Council area

Traffic & travel

Repairs to water main in Belfast city centre sees traffic sharing same lane

Belfast Zoo ticket prices could rise. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Belfast Zoo: Decision on increasing cost of visiting city zoo pushed back

Pictured published by the News Letter on Monday, February 1943, concerning the Red Army parade which had been held in the city. The News Letter noted: “After the march past the ceremony ended with the playing of the Russian National Anthem, for the first time at an official ceremony in Ulster and God Save the King.” Picture: News Letter archives

Ulster PM: Stalingrad victory ‘one of the miracles of war’ (1943)

Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 24 January 1945

City electricity department celebrates Jubilee (1945)

Chef John O’Hare of Lagan Ribs

Chef John is winning new business at Christmas Market

SDLP Belfast Councillor Gary McKeown is inviting visitors to City Hall the chance to make a donation to charity if taking selfies at the council's Christmas tree.

Charity donation request for selfies at council Christmas tree

The ever-popular Belfast Christmas Market offers everything from German sausage to French crepes, ostrich burgers, Spanish paella and all manner of arty gifts as well as the Helter Skelter and lots of opportunities to indulge in toasted marshmallows

Cornucopia of continental delights at Belfast Christmas Market
All the favourites plus some new tempting treats return to heart of the city as Yuletide beckons

Belfast City Hall

Council seeking to bring mysterious “unadopted” bridge into public ownership

Unite the Union members during a protest in March outside Duncrue Road Belfast City Council offices in an attempt to get better working conditions and wages due to the rising costs of living. Photo by Presseye/Philip Magowan

Women Demand Better protest rally to take place at Belfast City Hall

Letter to the editor

Brave men and women of UDR weren’t terrorists but stood against terror

People take part during an Enough is Enough rally at Belfast City Hall to protest against rising energy bills and the cost of living crisis. Picture date: Saturday October 1, 2022.

NI children could die from hypothermia amid cost-of-living crisis, rally told

Pacemaker Press 19/09/2022: The Queen's state funeral at Westminster Abbey has started. Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill and US president Joe Biden are among the political and world leaders in attendance.Around 2,000 guests are at the service. Crowds watch the Queen's funeral at Belfast City Hall. Picture By: Arthur Allison:Pacemaker Press.

WATCH: Strict decorum and solemn silence as Belfast bids farewell to The Queen

An Alliance motion at City Hall last month to make a bid for hosting Eurovision was passed by 10 votes to seven

Belfast’s failed Eurovision bid still striking a sour note at city hall

A Green Party proposal for Belfast City council to be given the power to pedestrianise streets has been blocked by the DUP and Sinn Fein.

SF and DUP block council devolution powers to pedestrianise city centre

Bollywood dancers from ArtsEkta's South Asian Dance Academy will take part in the carnival parade

Get set for a blaze of colourful cultural diversity

Belfast Chamber president Alana Coyle and Tom Stokes, director, TSA Planning

Belfast Chamber sets up new regeneration policy working group

News Letter editorial

Save all your Eurovision kisses for Belfast

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 26th July 2022 Picture by Matt Mackey / /PressEye Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Christina Black opened a book of condolence in memory of Lord Trimble at City Hall today (Tuesday 26 July). The book will be available for signing in the main reception hall of Belfast City Hall during normal opening hours.

David Trimble 1944-2022: Books of condolence opening across Northern Ireland
A number of councils have begun opening books of condolence for the late David Trimble, after his death from illness this week.

Pacemaker Press 12-07-2019: Twelfth of July parades at Belfast City Hall. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Twelfth of July: Tune in to our Facebook Live stream of the main Belfast parade

The route of the parade (starting in the north and heading south)

TWELFTH 2022: The Belfast Orange parade - the bands, route, restrictions etc

Alana Coyle has been elected as the new president of Belfast Chamber

New Belfast Chamber president hopes they can ‘be a critical friend’ to businesse...

News Letter editorial

Reflect on hurt and pain of Troubles, but remember its causes

Botanic Gardens in Belfast were lit up with more than 18,000 bulbs during the Christmas event

Residents tell of upset over ‘Bright Lights’ event in Botanic Gardens, Belfast

Belfast city centre

Concerns grow over 'dirty and unclean' perception of Belfast

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 28th May 2022 More than 20,000 people take part in an Orange Order parade in Belfast to mark the centenary of Northern Ireland. Orange lodges from across Northern Ireland, along with bands, took part in the parade which started at Stormont and continued into the city centre. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

NI centenary parade: SLIDESHOW – from Miss UK to Union Flag top hats

NI centenary parade: Here they come... WATCH as head of parade hits City Hall

NI Centenary Parade: Mile-by-mile layout of the route with landmarks

Adam Lambert(centre) performs with Brian May (left) and Roger Taylor of Queen, during the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast. Photo: Ian West/PA Wire

Queen + Adam Lambert concert at SSE Belfast: important traffic information

Stormont

PSNI issue traffic advice for Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland Centenary Parade

Belfast Marathon

Belfast City Marathon 2022: Where it starts and finishes, time, route, weather?

Protesters gathered at a cost of living protest in Belfast

Cost-of-living protest calls for extra help for families in Northern Ireland

American-Irish actor John C. Reilly during a photocall for St. Patrick's Festival International at The Gravity Bar in The Guinness Storehouse, Dublin. John will appear in the national St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin on March 17, alongside Grand Marshal's Paralympic gold medal swimmer Ellen Keane and Olympic gold medal boxer Kellie Harrington. Picture date: Wednesday March 16, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story IRISH StPatricksDay. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

St Patrick’s Day celebrations return after two-year Covid absence

St Patrick's Day Belfast 2022: Full list of expected road closures and traffic disruption in Belfast.

St Patrick's Day Belfast: Expected road closures and traffic disruption

St Patrick's Day Celebrations Northern Ireland 2022: Full list of events this year - and how you can celebrate.

St Patrick's Day Celebrations Northern Ireland 2022

'Visitors will take a step back in time into 1950s Belfast'

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 4th March 2022 Volunteers and organisations in Belfast come together to organise the collection of donations for Ukrainian refugees following the invasion by Russia. Volunteers Sally Clarke and her husband Ian help out at the collection point at Smokie Deli restaurant on Grand Parade in east Belfast. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Anti-war rally today as Ukraine aid efforts stepped up in NI

Revelers celebrating New Year's Eve in Belfast at the Thirsty Goat. Picture by Pacemaker Press

IN PICTURES: Covid rules fail to dampen New Year’s Eve spirits

Demonstrators against the new Covid certification system protest outside Belfast City Hall.

IN PICTURES: NI protest against vaccine passports

Loughbrickland street preacher Ryan Willliamson has been arrested twice since August, once in Larne and also in Dundalk.

Open air preachers could require permits under new bye-laws

Veterans lay a wreath in the grounds of Belfast City Hall during the 101st anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in 2017. Picture: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

Anniversary of the Somme ceremony City Hall (July 1951)

National Museums NI’s Kathryn Thomson and MD of LQ BID, Chris McCracken

Belfast’s newest free attraction, the Golden Mile Walking Trail, is launched by ...

Ulster Hall fears over office building plan

Belfast blitz

City Hall to go dark for 80th anniversary of Belfast Blitz

Belfast City Hall pictured in June 2010. Picture: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Municipal ‘relics’ linking Belfast to it’s past on show in...

Danielle Roberts, Reclaim the Agenda

International Women’s Day in Northern Ireland to focus on phenomenal women of th...

Ray Hutchinson, Managing Director of Gilbert-Ash, stands in front of Merchant Square

Gilbert-Ash to be fit-out contractor