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P rime Minister Rishi Sunak has met Northern Ireland political leaders amid the ongoing powersharing impasse at Stormont. Mr Sunak held informal talks with senior representatives of the main parties at a hotel near Belfast at the start of his first visit to the region as Prime Minister. He met…

Pic by Simon Walker/ No 10 Downing Street. # Powersharing Sunak says he is working 'flat out' to restore the power sharing executive in Northern Ireland Powersharing in Northern Ireland is in cold storage due to a dispute over post-Brexit trading arrangements. FOLLOWING HIS FIRST meeting with Northern Ireland’s political…

Drive out of Derry on the main road to Belfast and it is only minutes before you hit the first set of roadworks. This is the way it is now on the A6 – the road that links Northern Ireland’s two main cities, Belfast and Derry – and the way…

Michael Conlan and Karim Guerfi battle it out in the main event at SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday, December 10. The contest pits two-time Irish Olympian and former European champion from France. The bout is scheduled for ten rounds at featherweight. In Australia the fight card airs…

Two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan (17-1, 8 KOs) takes on former European champion Karim Guerfi (31-6, 9 KOs) in the main event at SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday December 10, which makes it Sunday December 11 in Australia. A day before the fight show the athletes step…

Image source, Pacemaker The Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children has postponed all routine procedures due to the pressures caused by a rise in bacterial and viral infections. The Belfast Trust said it was facing "significant pressures" with 214 children attending its A&E on Tuesday. A five-year-old from Belfast died…

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Fibrus has just started to connect tens of thousands of people living and working in rural Cumbria to lightning-fast broadband under a deal worth more than £108m. Around 60,000 premises in the county will be connected to the fastest broadband on the market. Dominic Kearns, CEO of Fibrus, said: “We…

Culture secretary Michelle Donelan goes down to the woods with FibrusAround 60,000 premises in the county will be connected by underground and overhead cables to “the fastest broadband on the market”. Installation work is already underway in the region, with the first gigabit connections expected by the spring. The project…

Edward Berger’s All Quiet On The Western Front and Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast top the European Film Academy’s Excellence Awards honoring achievement in the arts and crafts categories, the winners of which were announced on Wednesday. Belfast won best European Production Design for Jim Clay, whose credits include Children Of Men,…