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PFL lightweight star Paul Hughes will be returning to the cage in May. ‘Big News’ hasn’t been seen in action since his meeting with Bellator champion Usman Nurmagomedov in January. Despite entering the title bout a heavy underdog, Paul Hughes brought the fight to the undefeated Russian. For five rounds,…

Belfast Firms have been alerted to work worth £700m on an undersea electricity link between Scotland and Northern Ireland. The LirlC connector, which will run between Ayrshire and the Belfast region, will provide up to 700MW of capacity between the Irish Single Electricity Market and the British wholesale electricity market.…

Invitations to bid for work on the LirlC Interconnector project are due out shortly for key awards in November. The project being developed by Transmission Investment will provide up to 700 MW of capacity between the Irish Single Electricity Market and the British wholesale electricity market. Main LirIC work packages…

It is an enormous box-shaped grey building in the middle of a sprawling Belfast industrial estate. Workers spill out of the main entrance at lunchtime; no one has permission to speak about what goes on behind its walls. This is the Thales UK missile factory in the east of the…

Jack O'Neill had to overcome a gruesome clash of heads to maintain his perfect record in the paid ranks. The 24-year-old beat Mohammed Wako in their four-round super-bantamweight affair in Belfast on Saturday night. 5 O'Neill's face was a bloody mess following a clash of heads during his four-round dust-up…

A man shot in west Belfast at the weekend has been denied permission on antiterrorism grounds to travel to Scotland for surgery, his solicitor has said. Seán O’Reilly (49) was hit twice after two masked men fired shots through the window of his taxi as it was parked in the…

Hours after a dissident republican was shot in his taxi outside a west Belfast depot on Sunday morning, a social media post appeared that sparked fears of retaliation. Republican Network for Unity, a small political party with links to the dissident organisation Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH), posted that the victim…

A taxi driver was injured in a shooting in west Belfast on Sunday morning. He was taken to hospital for treatment where he is in a critical but stable condition. Police and emergency services attended the scene of the incident in the Bell Steel Manor area of Dunmurry. PSNI detectives…

Ryan Ndede was arrested on ferry to Birkenhead Gardaí at the scene of the incident on Dublin's South Anne Street. Photo: Mark Condren David Young Today at 03:30 A 23-year-old accused of murdering a man during an incident in Dublin city centre was allegedly captured on CCTV footage stabbing him…

A joint venture (JV) between Graham and Bam Ireland has been appointed to build a £671m children’s hospital in Belfast.  The project at Royal Victoria Hospital will be undertaken by the Northern-Ireland based Graham and Bam Healthcare Partnership (GBHP). The 10-storey hospital will have 155 beds – 80 per cent…