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Pat Doherty has the distinction of having sat for three portraits – two paintings and a copperplate etching – by the legendary British painter Lucian Freud.  Several copies of the etching feature in the exhibition, Lucian Freud’s Etchings: A Creative Collaboration, which has just launched at Titanic Belfast in partnership…

Commentary Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story Published May 11, 2025 9:00AM (EDT) DJ Próvaí of Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap performs during the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 11, 2025. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)…

PSNI is appealing for witnesses to come forward. Belfast One of the men suffered serious injuries to his arm and hand. ARMED POLICE WERE dispatched to a knife fight in Belfast yesterday which led to the arrests of four men, the PSNI has confirmed. It had been reported that the…

He's called them "my enemy..." 08 · 05 · 2025 John Lydon has lashed out at Belfast group Kneecap. The Northern Irish trio have been a talking point of late, with their Coachella sets – and attendant support of the Palestinian cause – triggering a right wing backlash. Footage of…

A photograph of the late journalist Lyra McKee has been unveiled in The Reporters Bar in Belfast to mark International Press Freedom Day. Ms McKee (29) died after being struck by a bullet fired at police during rioting in the Creggan area of Derry on April 18th, 2019. The New…

Kneecap at a film awards ceremony in the UK in December 2024 Alamy Stock Photo Apology Footage of the Belfast rap trio at two separate gigs was sent to the Metropolitan Police last week. LAST UPDATE | 29 Apr KNEECAP HAVE HAD a gig in the UK cancelled following widespread…

Kneecap have apologised to the families of two former British MPs who were murdered in recent years and said they do not support Hamas or Hezbollah. This comes after videos from past gigs came to the attention of police and politicians . The Belfast rap group released a statement after…

Belfast Harbour CEO Joe O’Neill (left) with chair Theresa Donaldson (centre) and Graham managing director Leo Martin at the site of the new D3 terminal John Graham Construction has been named main contractor for the initial phase of the development of a new deepwater terminal at Belfast Harbour The project…

Some career shifts happen gradually, but for Ryan Crown, founder and creative director of Crown Creative, it happened in an instant while sitting at a conference table in New York. "I was working on a branding project for Harry's NYC, sitting across from the design agency, thinking I could do…

An investigation by British police into Kneecap “just feeds a narrative of victimhood”, a former Ireland rugby player and Tory politician has said.  The West Belfast rappers are under investigation by the Metropolitan Police after footage emerged of one of the band’s gigs in which someone appears to tell the…