Northern Ireland

Police in Northern Ireland say children as young as 12 were involved in another night of violence, as officers were attacked with petrol bombs in several predominantly Unionist estates in Londonderry last night. Officers were also attacked in loyalist areas of Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus – in scenes which the force described as “totally unacceptable”. Thirty…

Just days after the European Commission was criticised for threatening to override the Northern Ireland Protocol in the row over vaccine supplies, Boris Johnson has said he is prepared to do the same thing. The Prime Minister said he could take the action to ensure that there is no border in the Irish Sea. A…

Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster has said the reproductive R-rate there has now fallen back below one in Northern Ireland, but warned that the health service remains under huge pressure.

The prime minister has said he would have no hesitation suspending the agreement reached with the EU over checks on food and goods shipped to Northern Ireland if delays to freight get worse.  

The Northern Ireland executive is expected to announce a series of new measures shortly.

This morning we spoke exclusively to the newly appointed Irish Prime Minister, Taoiseach, Micheál Martin. 

Today in Londonderry, the people of his home city laid John Hume to rest.

The second of our special reports from Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

In Northern Ireland, funeral traditions are tightly woven into the fabric of society.

Hundreds of millions of litres of milk cross from Northern Ireland into the Republic each year.

Talks have resumed at Stormont today between the main political parties in Northern Ireland in an attempt to restore a powersharing government. The first fully-fledged discussions since negotiations collapsed in February last year come in the wake of the murder last month of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee.

Two teenagers have been detained under anti-terror laws in connection with the death of the journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot in the head during disturbances on Thursday night in Londonderry.

Relatives of the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings have called for those responsible to be prosecuted after an inquest jury found that botched warnings contributed to the deaths of 21 people.

It’s nearly half a century since one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.