Belfast

The loyalist group 'Let's Talk Loyalism' has lodged a formal complaint to Fleadh Cheoil organisers after a food trader played a pro-IRA song.  Food trader, The Hatch, has issued an apology for “any offence caused” after a video circulating online, appearing to show Celtic Symphony by the Wolfe Tones playing…

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has stopped short of denying reports that the Government has ordered a jet for Ministers and officials that could face difficulties landing because it does not have an Israeli-made navigational system. The Journal website reported at the weekend that the Dassault Falcon 6X jet was ordered without…

There's a strong music connection to his work... 06 · 08 · 2026 Belfast-born artist Jack Coulter has launched a new exhibition with Winsor Birch. The 32-year-old painter has always absorbed music into his creative practise – Jack Coulter has synaesthesia, which means he experiences sound as colour. As such,…

The project aims to significantly increase the supply professionally managed rental housing within Belfast’s city centre. It is the largest residential scheme delivered in Belfast in recent years, and Northern Ireland’s first large scale BTR development. Loftlines will form part of L&G’s growing BTR portfolio, marking its first scheme in…

Beatrice Dettman, 8, playing a concertina and her mother Constance Dettman playing the fiddle, from Chicago, who are both competitors at the Fleadh in Belfast. 3 August, 2026. Series foodies and the fleadh As the Fleadh comes to Belfast this week, the city’s food scene and the best service in…

There was standing room only in a windowless arts venue in Belfast where a neuroscientist recorded the brain activity of a harpist as she played a melody about trees. The audience was enrapt. This was a lunchtime fringe event in the city’s Cathedral Quarter on the second day of Fleadh…

A cross-Border music project supported by the Ed Sheeran Foundation took centre stage on the second day of the first Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann to take place in Belfast. Young people from Belfast and Cork involved in North South Sounds 2026 gave a rendition of The Cranberries’ hit Zombie during…

Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 is a celebration of the “universality” of music, President Catherine Connolly said at its opening ceremony in Belfast. Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill told the hundreds gathered outside City Hall that the fleadh is for all “who call this place home”, while Deputy First…

Labour's Bev Craig makes a speech after she was declared winner of the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection Alamy Bev Craig Belfast native Bev Craig was declared the winner more than 24 hours after polling stations closed. LABOUR CANDIDATE AND Belfast native Bev Craig has won the largest byelection in British…

WEBWIRE – Friday, July 24, 2026 easyJets has announced three more winter routes are on sale today providing a greater range of destinations and supporting regional connectivity The airline is relaunching a route from the UK to Kosovo as well as launching new routes to France and between Northern Ireland…