Belfast

IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez has a date for his first title defense set for Saturday, May 27 when he faces Michael Conlan at The SSE Arena in Belfast. The pair squares off in the scheduled for 12 rounds world championship bout live on BT Sport in the UK…

Past the red carpet, next to the main reception, a door opens at Belfast’s prestigious Europa Hotel. Van Morrison exits the lift and a 70-year-old lady’s day has been made. “My two sons won’t believe I’ve shared a lift with Van the man,” she tells me in a friendly Scouse…

A 46-year-old woman has appeared at Belfast Crown Court where she denied sexual offences against a teenage boy. Isobel Murphy was told she will stand trial next month on a total of six charges involving a 14-year-old male. Read More

A local drama group in south Belfast turned its weekly meeting into a celebration after the success of member James Martin at the Oscars. The star of An Irish Goodbye has become the first person with Down’s syndrome to win at the Academy Awards. While Martin celebrated in LA, Babosh…

We spoke to Claire Hanna, nationalist SDLP MP for South Belfast...Read More

If the signals from Belfast yesterday were that a deal was imminent, the message from Munich was one of caution. Although Rishi Sunak and Ursula Von Der Leyen both agreed ‘very good progress’ had been made on the Northern Ireland Protocol, an issue which has paralysed power-sharing and toxified Britain’s…

White House officials have visited Belfast in advance of a potential trip by US president Joe Biden next month. Officials and members of the Secret Service are understood to have arrived in Northern Ireland last weekend to scope out possible venues for the expected visit. They also toured sites in…

Belfast skylineBelfast City Council is seeking to establish a long-term arrangement with an investor/developer to bring forward residential-led regeneration to support its ambitions for population growth in the city. Four city centre sites have been earmarked for development, with the potential for further sites to follow. The council is seeking…

Titanic Belfast has reopened its doors to visitors following a €5.1m (£4.5m) refurbishment. he iconic visitor attraction has added four new galleries to the Titanic experience, with new artefacts on display including one of the ship’s few remaining lifejackets, an original deckchair bearing the distinctive White Star Line logo and the keys to its binocular…

Four men arrested in connection with an investigation into the attempted murder of Det Chief Insp John Caldwell in Omagh last week have been released. Two others remain in custody after extensions to their detention periods were granted by a court in Belfast. At least 10 shots were fired during…