Belfast

Hosting the Fleadh Cheoil in Belfast for the first time will create a tourism legacy similar to that delivered by staging golf’s Open Championship on the north coast, a tourism chief has predicted. More than 700,000 people are set to visit the city in early August when the world’s biggest…

In a colourful modular building monitored by CCTV cameras, Ciara Moore sat in front of seven squirmy four-year-olds and did something that some people here in Belfast – maybe the ones who occasionally throw raw eggs over the two locked security fences – consider an act of insurgency. She put…

The failure to bring back the catering trolley on all Irish Rail routes is “unacceptable”, Rail Users Ireland has argued.  During the pandemic, the service was scrapped as a non-essential service in a time of crisis.  Since then, the service has returned on the Dublin to Cork route and Enterprise…

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A postman in east Belfast has been fired after footage showed him kicking over a rainbow-coloured garden gnome. Ring Doorbell footage from the afternoon of Saturday December 6 show the ... The post Irish Postman Fired After Kicking Over Pride Garden Gnome appeared first on Star Observer...Read More

The final report into the activities of Stakeknife, the British army’s top IRA agent during the Troubles, will be released in Belfast later on Tuesday. It is understood it will not name Stakeknife – widely accepted to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, the former head of the IRA’s notorious…

Sunday 07 December 2025 3:58 pm  |   Updated:  Monday 08 December 2025 6:23 am A deal has been struck The world’s biggest aircraft marker, Airbus, is set to announce the rescue of 2,750 UK manufacturing jobs after striking a long awaited deal with rival Boeing. According to reports in The…

Overheard gets all its best investment ideas from ads on political podcasts. Only this week did we realise that this might not be the best idea. Greenman Open, a fund that buys buildings that Lidls and Aldis operate out of in Germany, this week blocked withdrawals for up to 18…

Councillors in Belfast have voted to erect the Palestinian flag over City Hall. A Sinn Féin motion to raise the flag on the next available day was passed by 32 votes to 28 at a council meeting on Monday evening. An Alliance Party amendment that proposed illuminating the City Hall…

Who was Chaim Herzog and why is a park in Dublin named after him? Chaim Herzog was Israel’s president from 1983 to 1993. Born in Belfast in 1918, Herzog spent his childhood in Dublin when his father Issac Herzog was chief rabbi of Ireland. He celebrated his bar mitzvah in…