Belfast

Ireland’s foreign affairs minister has been hastily rushed off stage by police at an event in Belfast after a van was hijacked and driven to the venue. Simon Coveney was forced to interrupt his speech at the peacebuilding event on the Crumlin Road. A controlled explosion was carried out at…

Three major construction consultancies have been named on a £200m deal to build innovation centres for Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Arcadis, Turner & Townsend and Faithful+Gould will provide project management, design and construction services as part of the contract win. Arcadis has been appointed to work on the…

GROUNDED 10:10, 24 May 2022Updated: 8:30, 26 May 2022BOTH easyJet and British Airways have cancelled more flights, as Covid staff shortages continue to affect airlines. Thousands of passengers have been affected by the cancellations. 2 Both easyJet and British Airways passengers have been hit by more flight cancellations this weekCredit:…

Thousands of red-clad protesters marched through the streets of Belfast on Saturday afternoon to call for protections for the Irish language. Large crowds comprising of Irish-speaking families, community groups and sports clubs marched through Belfast city demanding “language recognition, respect and rights”, as well as calling on the UK Government…

Aphelele Fassi. (Photo By Brendan Moran/Sportsfile via Getty Images) Ulster might have killed the Sharks’ home United Rugby Championship (URC) hopes after beating the men in black 24-21 in Belfast on Friday night. The manner in which the Sharks succumbed will concern their management; they looked like a hastily assembled…

Just a few months after Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast claimed the best original screenplay Oscar and nearly became — one can reasonably assume — the first Focus Features film ever to win the best picture Oscar, the art house distributor showed up on the Croisette with another filmmaker’s look back at his…

The five young women who are on a ship in 1851 sailing from Ireland to Australia in Jaki McCarrick's gripping play Belfast Girls, which is now onstage at the Irish Repertory Theatre, all have some secrets, and they all have told a few lies. In fact, the play could have…

Nancy Pelosi: ‘I urge constructive, collaborative and good-faith negotiations to implement an agreement that upholds peace.’ Photograph: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo/Bloomberg By Mark HilliardFri May 20 2022 - 00:04 The US speaker Nancy Pelosi has described as "deeply concerning" moves by the UK to unilaterally scrap parts of the Northern…

Ulster head coach Dan McFarland. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images) Ulster know exactly how to nullify the Sharks in their crucial URC encounter this weekend ... in theory.Coach Dan McFarland admits the challenge of facing SA sides as well as the competitiveness they've brought to the URC is "exciting".Both teams…

PAC Group urges new Northern Ireland MLAs to get to grips with green agenda Belfast, UK, 23rd May 2022, ZEXPRWIRE, Northern Ireland’s leading engineering company, PAC Group, has called on newly elected MLAs to tackle the energy crisis by reducing barriers to renewable sources, such as solar. PAC Group Business…