Elgy Gillespie reports on the month-long San Francisco Irish festival. For four years the Irish Arts Foundation of San Francisco headed by Derryman Peter O’Neill and Clareman Eddie Stack have produced ...

A COUPLE who attempted to smuggle £200,000 worth of cannabis through Belfast International Airport have each been jailed for 21 months. Jason Chah Kok Siong, 27, and Ho Wen Feng, 25, will also be ...

BELFAST rap group Kneecap led chants of ‘F*** Keir Starmer’ during their Glastonbury set days after the British Prime Minister said the band should not perform at the festival. Kneecap’s set was not ...

A WOMAN has been arrested by police investigating the suspicion death of a man in Newry on Saturday. At around 12.45pm, police received a report that a man in his 40s had sustained a serious injury in ...

A MAN has been charged after slurry was spread on a number of roads in Ballymena, Co. Antrim ahead of the town’s first ever Pride parade. Following the man’s arrest, police said they were treating the ...

AN investigation has been launched after a man died following an incident at a home in Dublin last night. Gardaí have confirmed they are investigating “all the circumstances” surrounding the death of ...

IRELAND’S oldest and largest medieval book shrine is on display for the very first time. The Lough Kinale Book Shrine is now on public display at the National Museum of Ireland, following a nearly ...

TÁNAISTE Simon Harris has shared his “concern” over a new policy requiring Irish students to allow their social media accounts to be vetted before being granted permission to travel to the US. The US ...

OVERCROWDING in Irish prisons is spiralling out of control, in what experts are calling a national ‘crisis’. With facilities operating at nearly 120% capacity, over 400 inmates are currently sleeping ...

THE British Met Office and Ireland’s Met Éireann are inviting the public to help name the storms expected to affect Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands in 2025/26. This marks the 11th year of the ...

TWO men have been arrested following a series of raids by PSNI officers investigating suspected criminality linked to the West Belfast UDA. A number of properties in north and south Belfast were ...