The new leader of Northern Ireland’s Department of Health says there is potential for the region to have one of the best health systems in the world. Mike Farrar took up the position of permanent ...

Crowds of fans flocked to Easter Road stadium to pay their respects to “salt of the Earth” Sir Tom Farmer as his funeral hearse passed by the club he once helped save. He owned a majority stake in ...

Keen tourist Theo Dan is relishing the prospect of adding another couple of stamps to his passport this summer.

A farmhouse on the estate of the former family home of Diana, Princess of Wales has been “burnt down by vandals”, her brother said. Earl Spencer said he was “stunned” to learn that a farmhouse was ...

The building society suggested that customers were switching from rival banks in order to make use of its branch network.

A 74-year-old former surgeon who raped hundreds of victims over more than two decades has been given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison by a French court. Joel Le Scouarnec was found guilty of ...

The 53-year-old man, from West Derby, Liverpool, remained in custody on Wednesday after officers were granted further time to question him on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving and drug ...

RTE director general Kevin Bakhurst has said he was “infuriated” by the reaction to the filming of a promotional clip. He said the cost of filming the promo came out of RTE’s annual two million euro ...

The Government has set out proposals to cut red tape and for planning decisions to be shifted away from councillors and towards expert officers.

Jamaal Darbasie, 27, and George Manton, 19, both from Harlow in Essex, were stopped at Glasgow Airport in March 2024.

Survivors of the Nottingham attacks, who suffered life-changing injuries, have written to local MPs to create a “powerful voice on the national stage” amid the public inquiry into the fatal incident, ...

Summarising Lady Harding’s written evidence, counsel to the inquiry Sophie Cartwright KC, told the hearing that amid low take-up of self-isolation when the support system came into place in September ...