Covid-19

Nearly two in 10 older people avoided going to A&E during winter last year due to these concerns

Six in 10 over 65s worry about catching flu from A&E trips

Baroness Heather Hallett, inquiry chairwoman, giving a statement following the publication UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry Module 3 Report. Issue date: Thursday March 19

Stay-at-home pandemic order sent message NHS was closed – Covid-19 Inquiry

Screen grab from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry live stream of Glen Grundle from Coleraine giving evidence remotely around the experience of his mother Milda during the pandemic

Covid inquiry hears claim that elderly woman 'was denied chance of survival'

Morning View

Editorial: An air of optimism for NI motorcycle road racing fans in 2026

Belfast man Ciaran McLarnon, who began baking and cooking just before the Covid-19 pandemic, is marking the first successful year of The Focacceria by launching an ambitious new growth strategy

NI’s cult sandwich spot plans major expansion including bakery school

The number of people admitted to hospital with flu continues to rise steely, with the Public Health Agency urging eligible people to continue to come forward for vaccines.

Hospital flu admissions surge – call for more vaccinations

Plans to introduce baby loss certificates in Northern Ireland have passed their final Assembly stage

Plans for baby loss certificates in Northern Ireland pass final Assembly stage

Martina Ferguson was forbidden from seeing her mother Ursula for nine months during the pandemic due to strict visiting rules in care homes. Her mother later died from Covid.

'Care homes were left unregulated during Covid' says daughter

Handout screengrab issued by UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry of Chair of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Baroness Heather Hallett

Stormont response to Covid characterised by ‘petty party politics’, say bereaved

The report has concluded that the response in Northern Ireland, like the rest of the UK, was “a repeated case of too little, too late”

Divided Stormont led to ‘chaotic’ Covid response, public inquiry finds

Sir Michael McBride told MLAs at the Stormont Health Committee they are mindful to reach out to those for whom English may not be their first language and some areas of socio economic deprivation

‘High levels of confidence in vaccines’ – chief medical officer

Education Minister Paul Givan. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Almost three in 10 children falling behind in literacy and numeracy – Givan

The Public Health Agency (PHA) is encouraging eligible people to come forward for the spring COVID-19 vaccination

Covid-19: Spring jabs now available

Former first minister Baroness Arlene Foster giving evidence for module 7 to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London

No evidence of fall in Covid rules compliance after Storey funeral, O’Neill says

Stephen Monaghan, from Millisle, in Co Down, had a severe stroke at just 50 years old after not taking his blood pressure medication as prescribed for a couple of days.

NI man on having a stroke after not taking blood pressure meds

The spring Covid booster vaccination programme is currently underway.

Warning over slump in elderly getting spring Covid boosters
Here’s how you can book an appointment and check if you’re eligible 💉
Sarah McCann

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
The Education Authority's Interim Director of Education, Cynthia Currie, has praised pupils and their parents after GCSE results were released in the Province.
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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

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

Raymond McAleese and niece Lauren Mallon

Niece vows to give Covid victim uncle with Down's syndrome, and others, a voice

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

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

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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)

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

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