All news on the topic: Northern Ireland

Three men have been found not guilty of the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019.

Two male Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers have been sacked following separate incidents in which they touched the buttocks of female colleagues.

Stephen McCullagh has lodged an appeal against the sentence he received for murdering his pregnant partner Natalie McNally.

Stormont Speaker Edwin Poots has insisted that he “would never have protected Jeffrey Donaldson in any circumstance”.

George Shipley doesn’t mince his words. The 34-year-old acting skipper stands on the quayside at Brixham harbour, the smell of salt and diesel thick in the early morning air, white plastic boxes stacked behind him and the Devon hills rising beyond the trawlers, and says what every fisherman here is thinking.

The Welsh government has expressed disappointment that a meeting promised by Sir Keir Starmer with First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth in June is not taking place.

The two women accusing Sir Jeffrey Donaldson of sexually abusing them as children have been described as "not sufficiently reliable" for the jury to reach a guilty verdict.

Grant Calder, who campaigned for Thomas Kerr MSP during the Scottish Parliament election, claimed on Facebook on Tuesday that “there are going to be protests and there’s going to be trouble, including migrants getting put out of houses and hostels”.

The Northern Ireland First Minister queried whether the move was ‘more about internal Labour Party politics than what is right’.

The message circulating on WhatsApp listed 26 locations in and around Belfast with an unambiguous instruction: “Forward to all men of the age 18 and over.

Protests spread around Belfast and in other Northern Ireland cities on Tuesday after a Sudanese man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a knife attack on Monday night.

Twelve police officers have been injured and 16 people have been arrested in Northern Ireland following a second night of disorder in the wake of the Belfast knife attack.

Two firefighters putting out fires started during the Belfast riots were caught fighting one another yesterday.

On Tuesday hundreds of masked men spread across Belfast, pulling migrants and non-white people onto the street and setting their homes on fire.

Worshippers had to be locked in as a group of men wearing black hoodies and balaclavas marched on Glasgow’s largest mosque, according to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar.

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have condemned violent riots that saw houses torched, forcing families to flee, as “not welcome”.

Homes and cars were set on fire across Belfast on Tuesday evening after hundreds of protesters took to the streets in response to Monday night’s stabbing attack in the city.

More than a fifth of those arrested in the 2024 summer riots were subsequently accused of domestic abuse, new figures show.

The British security services were involved in formulating the controversial Legacy Act, which offered an amnesty to soldiers and paramilitaries despite MI5’s role in many killings during the Northern Ireland Troubles, it can be revealed.