Proposals

MPs, Peers and Disability join (front left-right) actress Liz Carr, Baroness Campbell and Dame Tanni Grey Thompson outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, to insist the voices of disabled concerned about assisted dying are considered. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is entering the final stages of committee scrutiny, before it is expected to return to the House of Commons for another vote by all MPs, possibly next month. Picture date: Monday March 24, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Disabled ‘face assisted dying coercion threat’

The Irish Football Association today confirmed details of its plans to create a new state-of-the-art, multi-million-pound National Football Centre located on a 50-acre site opposite the renowned Galgorm near Ballymena. Pictured with Gordon Lyons, Minister for Communities of Northern Ireland are (left to right): Aaron Hughes, Technical Director, Irish Football Association; Patrick Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Irish Football Association; Colin Johnston, Managing Director, Galgorm; Conrad Kirkwood, President, Irish Football Association; Michael O’Neill, Northern Ireland Senior Men’s Manager, Irish Football Association; and Angela Platt, Director Women’s Football, Irish Football Association. Photo by William Cherry/Presseye

Proposals for state-of-the-art National Football Centre outside Ballymena

Pictured with Communities Minister Gordon Lyons at the Irish Football Association's annoucement of plans for a new National Training Centre located next to Galgorm Resort outside Ballymena are (from left): Aaron Hughes, Technical Director, Irish Football Association; Patrick Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, Irish Football Association; Colin Johnston, Managing Director, Galgorm; Conrad Kirkwood, President, Irish Football Association; Michael O’Neill, Northern Ireland Senior Men’s Manager, Irish Football Association; and Angela Platt, Director Women’s Football, Irish Football Association. (Photo by William Cherry/Presseye)

Michael O'Neill highlights benefits of new state-of-art National Training Centre

The Maxol filling station on the Mallusk Road in Newtownabbey. Picture: Google

Four NI filling station expansion plans are turned down in the same week

Jamie Bryson pictured at the High Court in Belfast as he takes a legal challenge against the blocking of the flying of the Union Flag at war memorials

Jamie Bryson in high court battle to have flag at war memorials all year round

Proposals for the rollout of smart meters in Northern Ireland have been put forward for consultation. The proposal is for the rollout of approximately 920,000 smart electricity meters in homes and businesses

Consultation launched to roll-out smart electricity meters in Northern Ireland

Titanic Quarter Student Village has received planning approval by members of Belfast City Council’s Planning Committee following a recommendation to approve from council planners. The proposed development consists of accommodation for 1007 students, consisting of 286 studio bedrooms and 721 cluster rooms. Pictured is an artist impression of the Titanic Quarter Student Village (Courtesy of Todd Architects / Lacuna Developments and Watkin Jones)

Council gives major multi-million Titanic Quarter Student Village green light

Sugary drink refills could be banned in proposals put forward by the Welsh government (Photo by Adobe Stock)

'Pointless': Diners slam plans to ban free sugary drink refills

Dyson was founded by Sir James Dyson in 1991

Dyson to cut up to 1,000 jobs in the UK as part of global restructure

Rob Skelly enjoying the water from Lough Neagh before the toxic algae became a problem. His watersports business on the Lower Bann has had to be closed for safety reasons.

Watersports boss does not see Lough recovering in his lifetime

Tougher sentences for proposed pet abduction legislation move closer to becoming law

Tougher sentences for pet abduction move closer to becoming law

DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly will soon be presented with proposals for new bodies to enforce Irish language and Ulster Scots identity legislation. Photo: Oliver McVeigh/PA Wire

Proposals on Irish language act bodies submitted to first ministers

Canon Ian Ellis

Concern over 'disturbing' approach to addressing questions on bishops' expenses

The first of two new builds at Creagh Industrial Park near Toome is nearing completion. Credit: Submitted

Industrial Park expansion will boost business and development opportunities

Virgin Media O2 will cut up to 2,000 jobs

Virgin Media O2 to cut more than a tenth of UK workforce

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy. (Photo by Adam Davy/PA Wire)

LIV Golf teams for Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods part of talks
Proposals for a long-term agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) included Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy owning LIV Golf teams, a Senate subcommittee investigation has revealed.
By Phil Casey, PA Golf Correspondent

Then Prime Minister Tony Blair with his Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam at Stormont in 1998. Her failure to link prisoner releases to decommissioning and her publication of the controversial Patten report on policing without consulting the main parties hampered the formation of an Executive for nearly two years and cost the UUP significant public support. Picture Pacemaker

Belfast Agreement @25: The deal was the best we could get, says David Campbell

Pope Francis allows women to vote in bishops’ meeting for first time

landlords may soon be given more power to deal with anti-social tenants

Landlords to be given extra powers to evict ‘anti-social’ tenants

129 Cineworld venues face risk of closure

The 129 Cineworld cinemas at risk as chain struggles to find buyer

The PCS Union (Credit: Getty Images)

PCS union announce 100,000 members will strike on Budget Day

Leading UK vet calls for outright ban on owning dogs with cropped ears

God cannot bless something contrary to his will as revealed in the Bible. The Anglican proposals invalidate and ignore the Lambeth Resolution on marriage and sexuality

Anglican plans to bless gay marriage change Christian message beyond recognition

British passport prices are set to rise next month

Passport application fees to increase next month

Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman addresses delegates on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference. Credit: Getty Images

Home Secretary plans to crack down on protests with new bill

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

PM: Proposals could be law by end of year

Tina McKenzie, FSB chair of Policy and Advocacy

Ignoring the minority could turn problem into crisis
When we met with the US political delegation last week at the conclusion of their visit to Europe, Congressman Richard Neil remarked that “the Protocol is not a crisis; it’s just a problem”.
By Tina McKenzie, FSB chair of Policy and Advocacy

Irish language activists have held a number of protests at Stormont in support of statutory protection for Irish. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Proposals a recipe for ‘endless squander’ on Irish language: TUV

People take part in a demonstration in Parliament Square, London, to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Picture date: Sunday March 6, 2022: Ian West/PA Wire

Dublin calls meeting over grain shortages

Toilet block at Larne Town Park

£130k project to see two Larne parks restored to their ‘former Edwardian glory’

Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon MLA along with Irish Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Darragh O'Brien TD on a visit to Warrenpoint to discuss the Narrow Water Bridge project. Photo: Michael Cooper

Further consultation as progress towards Narrow Water bridge continues

The Gateway Centre at Antrim's lough shore.

Wartime torpedo retrieval boat part of Antrim and Newtownabbey’s £3m tourism bid

IRA volunteers on a training mission in 1989. The government is believed to be in favour of ending all prosecutions for Troubles killings

Boris Johnson warned by victims that Troubles amnesty would be ‘fundamentally wr...

Members of the public enjoy a drink in Belfast. Shops and outdoor hospitality venues reopened across Northern Ireland at the end of April as coronavirus rules were relaxed. Picture date: Friday April 30, 2021.

NI political turmoil leading to 'uncharted waters' over Covid rules, says Swann

Dog fouling.

Dog foul DNA plan is binned

Clare Bailey

Bill tabled at Stormont to set 2045 target for net zero carbon emissions

Many supermarkets are encouraging card payments (Photo: Shutterstock)

Latest rules on cash payments at UK supermarkets - including Asda, Tesco and Sai...

Proposed plans for Gilford Mill include apartments and a garden centre.

Plans for £6m redevelopment of former NI linen mill

The plans proposed for Waterloo Street in the city centre

Plans for businesses to trade on the street

Health Minister, Robin Swann.

Two weeks of further restrictions needed to protect hospitals, Robin Swann warns

Energy firms could get powers to cut off EV charging at peak times

A national lockdown has not been ruled out, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said it could be imposed as the “last line of defence" (Photo: Shutterstock)

Experts are recommending a 2 week national lockdown to coincide with October sch...

Ravenhill Private Nursing Home. Pic by Google.

Families asked to find alternative care for relatives as Co Antrim nursing home ...

Larne test centre (image Google).

Driving instructors seeking measured return to work

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 16th January 2020

Health Minister Robin Swann speaks to the media in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings in Stormont, east Belfast, regarding the announcements by Unison and RCN to suspend industrial action. Nurses had been striking over the last number of months for equal pay to the rest of the UK and safe working conditions.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Emergency childcare scheme announced

Ulster head coach Dan McFarland. Pic by INPHO.

PRO14 final cancelled and league season suspended indefinitely

Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith

NI Secretary Julian Smith has met with DUP representatives in London in a bid to...

Raymond White (left) and Mark Lindsay giving evidence to the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster

Equating police officers with terrorists ‘offensive’, MPs told

Loyalists have expressed their concerns about Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals

Brexit: Loyalists ‘warn’ Boris Johnson they will not tolerate an economic United...

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Wilson says ‘no’ to proposed wind farm overlooking Antrim Coast Road

The front page of a Belfast News Letter from April 1739, one of the many that we serialised each day, beginning last year, when each edition turned 280 years old. The reports on this page today come from the August 14 (August 25 modern date) paper, which is the last surviving edition in that surviving nine-month batch of papers from 1738 and 1739

The last of our reproduced reports from 1739: ‘The Parliament of Ireland is to b...

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£400 million plan for former Sirocco Works given green light by Belfast City Cou...

Final boundary revision proposals, published by Boundary Commission NI, 10-09-18. Multicoloured boundaries are current constituencies. Black boundaries are new ones.

Plans to redraw NI’s electoral constituencies deemed ‘unfair’

Exam boss: Transfer test plans ‘not fit for purpose’

The front page of the Belfast News Letter of May 8 1739 (which is May 19 in the modern calendar)

Reported 280 Years Ago (May 19 1739): Unconfirmed reports arrive in Belfast of w...

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