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Michael O'Neill, manager of the Northern Ireland football team, has paid tribute to Irish Olympian Ciara Mageean after her untimely passing from cancer.

'Ciara Mageean was a positive example for Northern Ireland'

Petrol and diesel prices are both at high levels and holding steady (photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP via Getty Images)

Haulage bosses say firms will start to go under if fuel stays at present price

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Remembrance is asked for but it is not demanded

Morning View

Parking Ulster’s community spirit for a small profit

Morning View

Editorial: Dare we hope that fuel costs keep dropping?

A customer arrives to re-fuel his car at a petrol station as fuel prices dip slightly in NI (photo by Bryn Colton/Getty Images)

Petrol and diesel prices have dipped slightly in Northern Ireland

The price of both diesel and petrol in NI is currently at its highest since the Iran war began (photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Diesel in Northern Ireland creeps closer to £2 per litre after yet another rise

Chart produced by Nationwide today showing Northern Ireland far out in the lead of house price growth in the UK

Increase in Northern Irish house prices far outstripping the rest of the UK

A customer re-fuels his cars at a petrol station as diesel brushes close to £2 per litre in Northern Ireland (photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Diesel now at its highest in Northern Ireland since Iran war began

Esmond Birnie served as an MLA from 1998 to 2007 for the Ulster Unionist Party; today he is a senior economist at Ulster University

What should matter more than MLAs' pay is their performance says economist

A vessel transits the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran on September 5, 2026; the waterway, a major oil transit point, lies at the heart of the Iran war

Bulk-bought home heating oil back up to almost £1 per litre again as fuel rises

Victor Chestnutt.

Rising costs for farmers lamented while Firmus gas customers also see bill hike

Mr Norman Irwin of Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107, has been praised by the NI Veterans Commission and Royal British Legion (photograph posted online by grandson Chris Irwin)

'Courage and humility' of ex-soldier who was believed to be NI's oldest man

Re-fuelling cars and restocking home oil tanks is growing pricier, the latest weekly survey shows (photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Price of petrol now at the highest it has been in NI since Iran war began

Baroness Foster has hit back at Gordon Brown in The Spectator (photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Arlene Foster denounces ex-Prime Minister's forecast that NI will quit the UK

A tree on the parched grass of Danson Park, south east London following weeks of extremely dry weather for much of England and Wales. Northern Ireland has also had lower-than-usual rainfall

Met Office reveals extent of Northern Ireland's unusually-dry run of weather
The Met Office has said that the past six weeks for Northern Ireland have been notably drier than expected – though a band of heavy rain is on the way.
Adam Kula

FonaCAB has bought up two more small operators, this time in Banbridge

FonaCAB adds another 40 drivers as it buys out two independent firms

A giant anti-US billboard in Tehran featuring US president Donald Trump in a coffin with text in Farsi reading 'We Kill Trump'. Hostilities have renewed between Iran and the US (photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Price of 900 litres of home heating oil shoots up by £175 in two weeks

Morning View

Editorial: The Twelfth is always a special day for the wider Orange family

Sunbathers amid the hot weather on the beach near Carnfunnock in Co Antrim today (Mark Marlow/PA Wire)

NI breaches 27C-mark today - and news looks good as we approach the Twelfth

People relax in the sun on the lawn of Belfast City Hall. Temperatures in Belfast are expected to rise to 22C again this weekend.

NI to push through thunderstorm warning back to warmer weather

A shirtless cyclist at Hampstead Heath, London, with the city's skyline in the background beneath clear blue skies today (Ben Whitley/PA Wire)

Heatwave: Some places in NI never got below 19C last night

Even the statues of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in Antrim Castle Gardens needed cooling down during the fine weather today

Joint warmest June day ever for Northern Ireland - here are the hottest spots

Vessels are seen anchored in Bandar Abbas along the Strait of Hormuz last week as oil prices tumbled after the US-Iran peace deal

Home heating oil prices could be virtually at pre-Iran war levels next week

Mum Morgan Cooke with six-month-old Roman Overend pictured with mum Hannah Flanagan and six-months-old Sadie Long at Stormont enjoying the sunshine today

Temperatures in Northern Ireland breach 28C - and are set to do so again

Eoin Tennyson said no-one should take Alliance in government for granted

Alliance deputy raises possibility of party staying out of government after 2027

Prices of both diesel and petrol have been dropping since their springtime spike (photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Cost of diesel now under 170p per litre as petrol and home heating oil also drop
Fuel forecourt prices have continued to dip, as has the cost of home heating oil.
Adam Kula

Dearbhaile Rogan, Susan Lavery, Grace Stitt and Lucie Fox enjoying the warm weather at Helen’s Bay beach in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland reaches above 26C - on a par with Istanbul and Barcelona

Economy minister Caoimhe Archibald promoting one of Tourism Northern Ireland's campaigns earlier this year; the agency increasingly describes Northern Ireland as 'the North'

Tourism Northern Ireland saying 'the North' instead of country's official name

Petrol and diesel prices remain high, largely unchanged from last week, while home heating oil prices fell (photo by Antoine Boureau / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

Home heating oil drops below £1 per litre for first time since Iran war began

A tree in full bloom at Antrim Castle Gardens on April 24, 2026; the month was among the warmest and sunniest in NI on record (Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press)

April was among the hottest and sunniest in Northern Ireland since records began

Employees of Basra Oil Company work at the Nahr Bin Umar Oil and Gas Field on the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Basra on April 29, 2026. Today, the global price of oil has spiked (Hussein FALEH / AFP via Getty Images)

Diesel and petrol prices drop for a second week in Northern Ireland

Visitors by Broadway Tower in Worcestershire today as the sunny weather continued across the UK (Jacob King/PA Wire)

Today's top temperature revealed for NI as sunshire to be interrupted

The population of Northern Ireland is predicted to decline sooner than previously expected

Northern Ireland's population to start dropping sooner than previously thought

Olivia Taggart pictured enjoying the sunshine at Antrim Castle Gardens; the good weather is set to continue this weekend and beyond (Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press)

Temperatures hit 21C with more expected tomorrow

An image of the aftermath of a wildfire in the Mournes last spring, posted by NI Water, which has warned people to be vigilant amid hot temperatures this week

Temperatures could breach 20C this weekend in Northern Ireland

A screenshot of the Ballygawley protest on Wednesday night (circulated online by Ciara Dempsey of the SDLP)

MLA says police 'heavy handed' with fuel protestors as penalties issued unclear

Fuel protestors slowly driving tractors and heavy vehicles, blocking the Sydenham Bypass city-bound close to Belfast City Airport (picture: Michael Cooper)

Convoy of tractors spotted on Sydenham Bypass in east Belfast

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer boards a plane at the airport in Doha, Qatar, today, following his visit to the Gulf region (Alastair Grant/PA Wire)

Demands grow for action on fuel as O'Neill and Little-Pengelly write to Starmer

Petrol and diesel are both up again this week in NI (photo by Nicolas Guyonnet / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)

Northern Irish economist says we shouldn't expect cheaper fuel in coming weeks

The weather warning for wind is in place from 2pm on Saturday to 2am on Sunday

Storm Dave: Winds of up to 70mph predicted on Saturday

A man sweeps up debris near a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27, 2026 in Tehran, Iran; the war has been pushing up oil prices

Pressure on Stormont over home heating bills as questions remain on £17m scheme

Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK are set for a wet and windy weekend to mark the start of British Summer Time (BST) when the clocks spring forward.

Wet and windy weekend set to mark start of British Summer Time

Carla Lockhart MP (Upper Bann, Democratic Unionist Party) has criticised the government over cost pressures being faced by Northern Irish consumers

DUP MP complains to Treasury of fuel taxes and lack of government support

Israeli soldiers walk near a fragment of a missile fired from Iran, and intercepted by Israeli defense system, embedded in a open field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Thursday, March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Diesel and petrol prices continue to climb while home heating oil keeps steady

Morning View

Editorial: Even with a subsidy oil-fired homes stand to be well out of pocket

Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble after a strike in southern Tehran, Iran, today (AP Photo/Sajjad Safari)

Daily fuel price steady but it comes after fortnight of surging costs

Surfers at sunset on Castlerock beach during a beautiful day on the north coast today (March 6) - picture: Michael Cooper

Surf's up: NI set for dry day and sunny spells with temperatures up to 12C

An old News Letter front page from March 1749

Muckamore Mills, near Belfast, to be sold at public auction (1851)

The Consumer Council's chart of the last five years of home heating oil prices in Northern Ireland

Official data shows home heating oil jumped by 81% in NI in one week

Waves break beneath gun-grey skies at Ballyholme Bay, Bangor, at the start of January; it has been a wet and extremely grey month for NI, figures show

Soaking wet and sunless: Hard data shows just how bleak February was for NI

East Londonderry UUP Association Chairman Robert Carmichael.

UUP urges boost for farm tourism

The Toast & Technology club gives children the chance to enjoy a warm, nutritious breakfast before taking part in fun, hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) activities.

Brain food: breakfast with a side of tech

Edwin Poots (pictured in the Assembly yesterday) has moved to 'correct the record' regarding his previous role as health minister

Assembly speaker Edwin Poots seeks to 'correct the record' on transgender clinic

Councils across Northern Ireland have been setting their new rates this month (photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Rates breakdown: How Northern Irish council rates will rise in your area

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