Covid-19

The spring Covid booster vaccination programme is currently underway.

Warning over slump in elderly getting spring Covid boosters

Wallace High School head coach Derek Suffern lifts the Schools Cup'. (Photo by Andrew McCarroll/Pacemaker Press)

Derek Suffern hopes historic Schools' Cup success can inspire future generations

David Torrans runs No Alibis bookshop on Botanic Avenue in Belfast.

Northern Ireland bookstores ‘bucking wider retail gloom’

Cases of the flu, Covid, RSV and norovirus remain high across the UK.

How to tell the difference between flu, Covid, RSV and norovirus

The best ways to boost your immune system as cold temperatures hit

The best ways to boost your immune system as cold temperatures hit

Robin Swann leaving the Clayton Hotel in Belfast after an earlier sitting of the UK Covid-19 inquiry hearing.

'What I know now is very different from what I knew then' - Robin Swann

Professor Raphael Bengoa during his visit to Northern Ireland where he met with Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Northern Ireland has tools for health service reform: Bengoa

Ulster Unionist Party leader and Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt

Health service reform 'about more than reconfiguring hospital services': Nesbitt

A 2016 plan by Prof Bengoa to restructure Northern Ireland’s health services was never implemented. Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Hope Bengoa speech will help 'reboot' reform of NI health service

Symptoms of the cold, flu and Covid can be similar.

Is it cold, flu or Covid? Latest symptoms to watch out for

CEO of Mallusk Enterprise Park Emma Garrett joins local entrepreneur Valerie Gardner to celebrate the growth and success of her creative business, Quirky Kitten, which has tripled sales year on year. Picture: Mallusk Enterprise Park

Bookings for popular wedding stylist roll in for years ahead

Pictured is pupils Rhys Maxwell, Jonah Browne McSparron, Principal of Strabane Academy, Mr David Hampton, EA Interim Director of Education, Cynthia Currie, pupils Shannon McHugh and Katie Sayers receiving their GCSE results

Education Authority commend young people on GCSE results day

Sam Fender at Boardmasters 2024

Sam Fender warms crowd with powerful performance at Boardmasters

Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England.

Interest rates: Bank of England cuts rate to 5% in first drop since 2020

An Andy Warhol exhibition at The MAC, Belfast. Artists in Northern Ireland are earning on average of just £11,200 a year from their work and more than half have or would consider leaving the region for better career prospects, research undertaken by Perspective Economics and commissioned by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland has found.

Hard up Northern Ireland artists struggling to make ends meet

Sumer Northern Ireland has released its annual hotel industry survey. Pictured are John McGrillen, chief executive officer at Tourism NI, Brian Clerkin, managing director of Sumer Northern Ireland and Michael Williamson, consultant at Sumer Northern Ireland

Survey reveals 2.31million hotel bedrooms were occupied in NI last year
The Sumer Northern Ireland Survey also revealed NI bedroom letting rates reached a record high
Claire Cartmill

A new combined flu and Covid vaccine could be available by winter 2025

Moderna combi flu and Covid jab gives better protection

Press Eye - Northern Ireland - 16 May 2024Sue Gray pictured at the Clayton Hotel in Belfast City Centre to take questions at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry which is sitting in the city for three weeks.Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

NI civil servants more reactive than proactive at start of pandemic – Sue Gray

Anne-Marie O’Neill with her late father John, who died from Covid-19. The family were only allowed to say goodbye to him via Zoom.

Covid Inquiry: Distraught daughter says a part of her died with her father

Chairman of the largest independently owned catering, cleaning, events and support services company in Northern Ireland has revealed that the business almost went under during the Covid-19 pandemic. However Trevor Annon (pictured), who founded Mount Charles in 1988, also told how the company fought its way out of crisis following the darkest days during which they were forced to lay off some 500 staff

NI boss: ‘Covid nearly killed our business but, somehow, we came back stronger’

Co Antrim woman Andrea Anthony, who died from Covid-19, aged 58.

Covid Inquiry: Alan said his sister Andrea was like a mother to him

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging people who are immunosuppressed to top up their COVID-19 protection this spring.

Covid: Booster reminder for immunosuppressed

Coleraine student Lizzie Lyle says her mum Alison McKinney was allowed to die from Covid-19 because 'she was fat'

Covid-19: Daughter said mum allowed to die because 'she was fat'

Gavin Robinson's weekly email to DUP members focuses on fundamental reform of the NI Civil Service - including greater integration with the national Home Civil Service.

DUP: Civil service 'drift' can't continue

DUP MLA Edwin Poots (right) and solicitor John McBurney, leaving the Clayton Hotel in Belfast after giving evidence at the UK Covid-19 inquiry hearing

Health department was ‘greatest superspreader’ of Covid, Poots tells inquiry

Martina Ferguson (left) and Brenda Doherty (right) leading members of Northern Ireland Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice to the Clayton Hotel in Belfast as the Covid-19 Inquiry holds its first day of hearings in Northern Ireland. The hearings are examining core UK decision-making and political governance in Northern Ireland during the pandemic

Covid-19 inquiry ‘an opportunity for candour’ from Stormont leaders

Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Michael McBride receiving his Covid-19 vaccination in 2022.

Calls for Covid inquiry to probe Bobby Storey funeral in Belfast
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry opens today in Belfast, where it will take evidence for three weeks.
Philip Bradfield

People arriving at a Covid 19 testing centre

COVID-19 treatments extended for groups of patients in Northern Ireland

Morning View

Editorial: Road racing needs meaningful support or risks being lost forever

At the time of writing this article, booking information shows that MOT test centres in Armagh, Ballymena, Balmoral, Cookstown, Craigavon, Hydebank, Larne, Lisburn, Mallusk, Newtownards and Omagh had no appointments currently available. For the four remaining test centres there was a four-month waiting list, with no available appointments until July

Survey: Over half of Northern Ireland driving without MOT due to booking issues

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 20th May 2020 -

General view of parishioners at St Peter’s Cathedral in west Belfast pray under strict social distancing as churches in Northern Ireland have reopened today for individual prayer.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Queen’s asks people to respond to survey on the role of religion since Covid-19

Monday: Breathtaking (ITV1, 9pm)

Patricia McKeown of Unison, Kieran Ellison and Thomas McMichael of Unite and Kim Hall of Unison as public sector workers protest outside Stormont on an historic day as inside the Northern Ireland Government returns after a two year gap.

Robin Swann says he will prioritise pay talks with health staff

Free flu vaccinations for people aged 50-64 are now available in NI

Free flu vaccines for 50-64 year olds in NI

Nurses donning PPE at Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland.

£43m worth of Northern Ireland PPE stock at risk of not being used, says report

(left to right) Kirsten Hackman, Michelle Rumball, Fran Hall and Kathryn Butcher, who were removed from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry as Boris Johnson began his evidence with an apology to victims of the pandemic at Dorland House in London, during its second investigation (Module 2) exploring core UK decision-making and political governance. Photo : Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Covid Inquiry: ‘We don’t want your apology’, protesters tell Boris Johnson

A study found that working memory and cognitive function in older people rapidly declined during the pandemic

There are numerous things you can do to maintain brain function in older age.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister's personal phone number is published online

The researchers analysed data from 365 hospitals (Image: Adobe/NationalWorld/Kim Mogg)

167,000 people caught Covid in hospital during England's second wave

The PHA says vaccination is the best defence against Covid variants

COVID-19: Vaccine is a 'vital defence' to new variants - Public Health Agency

Northern Ireland’s chief medical officer Sir Michael McBride has previously urged people to come forward for their vaccinations to reduce pressure on Northern Ireland’s hospitals this winter

New Covid-19 variant detected in Northern Ireland

New report by Ulster University Economic Policy Centre shows that the high demand for remote and hybrid working in Ireland is reflected in an increasing number of organisations offering these working patterns. On average in 2019, 1-3% of online job adverts offered remote/hybrid working across both Ireland and Northern Ireland. However, by January 2023, a significant divergence can be seen with Ireland having a much higher proportion of jobs offering hybrid/remote working,16% compared to only 6% in Northern Ireland.

Report: Ireland embracing remote working while Northern Ireland lags behind

Ann McIvor contracted the virus and passed away alone on May 20, 2020, a barrister has told the UK Covid-19 inquiry. 'On that same date, up to 200 people had been invited to a bring-your-own booze party in Downing Street, an event that was attended by the then-prime minister.'

NI Covid victim died in hospital on same day as Downing St party, inquiry hears

Study launched to monitor current levels of Covid-19 in the UK population

Study launched to monitor current levels of Covid-19 in the UK population

Craigavon Area Hospital. The impact of Covid-19 outbreaks at two Northern Ireland hospitals was “catastrophic”, a report has found

Report finds Covid-19 outbreaks in two NI hospitals were ‘catastrophic’

The business, owned by serial entrepreneur and former BBC Dragons’ Den investor, Duncan Bannatyne OBE, has seen its EBITDA profit more than double to £29.6m and a pre-tax loss of £12.9m turn into a pre-tax profit of £1m in the year ending December 31st 2022. Pictured is Duncan Bannatyne OBE, owner of Bannatyne Health Club & Spa in Belfast

Dragons’ Den investor impressed as his NI health club sees profits restored

Lisburn offsite manufacturer, McAvoy, have won Healthcare Project of the Year at the 2023 Offsite Awards for delivering urgent ward space at two of University Hospitals Birmingham’s Hospitals

NI's McAvoy wins award for delivering vital ward space at Birmingham Hospitals

Covid-19 vaccincation

Appeal for those eligible for COVID-19 booster to avail as new variant here

Mike Browne celebrates his runner-up finish in the opening Supertwin race at the Isle of Man TT with the Burrows Engineering/RK Racing team

Mike Browne and Ulster team Burrows Engineering/RK Racing part company

A woman wears a face mask while walking on Oxford Street.

Pirola: Why scientists are concerned about the new Covid variant

Kate Garraway and her husband Derek Draper before his illness

Kate Garraway shares heartbreaking update on husband’s health

Dead black headed gulls at RSPB Belfast's Window On Wildlife reserve in Belfast Harbour this summer. The RSPB NI said there had been an outbreak of Avian Influenza or bird flu at the reserve. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

QUB professor's concerns about human version of bird flu

Teenagers across the country are waking up to their GCSE results in a year when the proportion of top grades awarded is expected to fall. Issue date: Thursday August 24, 2023. PA Photo. Hundreds of thousands of pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are receiving grades to help them progress to sixth form, college or training. Photo David Davies/PA Wire

GCSE top grades fall in NI but remain above pre-pandemic levels

New vaccine centre that aims to limit pandemic impacts unveiled

King Charles and the Queen Consort at Hillsborough Castle following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022. Photo: Niall Carson/PA

Royal Collection Trust returns to profit following Covid pandemic lockdowns

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