Thousands lined the streets of Belfast on Saturday as the first day of the annual Mela festival got underway in the city. First launched in 2007, the festival is organised by cultural organisation ...

A man has been arrested after a shop was robbed by an individual armed with a hammer in Co Armagh. Detectives received a report of armed robbery at a business premises in the Drumgor area of Craigavon ...

Private Eye has launched a scathing attack on the Arts Council over the potential silencing of the cross-community National Youth Choir.

DUP leader Gavin Robinson has led criticism amid fears historical items were destroyed when bonfires were set ablaze in Londonderry.

Patrick Kielty was back on air todat for the first time since his shock split from Cat Deeley. The presenter broadcast his morning slot on BBC Radio 5 Live from the corporation’s base in Belfast.

A grandfather killed in Co Down last weekend was laid to rest today wearing the colours of his beloved Liverpool Football Club.

Historical items are likely to have been destroyed after bonfires were set ablaze in Londonderry on Friday night, an MLA has said.

An amateur footballer who knocked out a man’s teeth after he was wrongly framed for a drug debt has avoided jail.

A multi-vehicle crash on the M2 is continuing to cause traffic problems – nearly four hours later. The collision happened on the motorway leaving Belfast just after York Street. Traffic was again ...

Niall McClean and Mervyn MccCleery are the Chairperson and PRO respectively, of Ards Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the Belfast branch which will bring the world’s largest annual festival of Irish ...

The Premier League has said it will launch a full investigation after Liverpool’s curtain-raiser against Bournemouth at Anfield was halted when visiting forward Antoine Semenyo reported being racially ...

The funeral of Stephen Brannigan will place in Downpatrick. The body of Mr Brannigan (56) was found in a house in Marian Park in the town last Sunday. On the same day, Fr John Mur ...