Belfast

A co-commission from Fact and Art Night, filmed in Doherty’s home city, Belfast. For the final instalment of a series of co-commissions from Fact and Art Night, artist and choreographer Oona Doherty translates her movement work Hope Hunt & The Ascension Into Lazarus and an audiovisual installation centering around a…

Westlife are the final act confirmed for Radio 2 Live. The chart-topping boy band - comprising Shane Filan, Markus Feehily, Kian Egan, and Nicky Byrne - will play to a small room of fans on August 26 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the BBC radio station's summer concert series. The…

A woman has been charged with the murder of a baby boy in north Belfast. Picture: Jonathan McCambridge/PA Fri, 30 Jul, 2021 - 06:51 A woman has been charged with the murder of a baby boy in north Belfast. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said Liam O’Keefe died…

Updated Jul 30th 2021, 1:53 PM THE MOTHER OF a baby boy has been remanded in custody charged with his murder. Raluca Ioana Tagani, 29, appeared before a judge in Belfast Magistrates’ Court this morning. She is accused of murdering her son Liam O’Keefe in a house in the Ardoyne…

Some disappointment on the track but better news in the ring on another busy day for Team Ireland in Tokyo. Welcome to the latest of our overnight updates from the Olympic Games.  The Irish Eye There’s a lot to get through here, but we’ll start with Aidan Walsh’s brilliant win…

The Anjool Maldé Memorial Trust takes great pleasure in announcing its 2021 Awards – with extra admiration for this year’s winners, who have battled through such adversity for a second year running, and yet delivered in style. The Trust makes annual awards with prize money to a selection of UK’s…

AN IRISH-LANGUAGE nursery that was set to open at a site in East Belfast is to relocate following “an ongoing social media hate campaign”.  Naíscoil na Seolta was due to open in September to cater for 16 children in a prefab on the grounds of the already-established Braniel Primary School but…

A 29-year-old woman remains under arrest on suspicion of the murder of a baby boy at a house in north Belfast. The boy’s young sister is in intensive care after she was injured in the same stabbing incident at Brompton Park in the Ardoyne area on Tuesday evening. It is…

An Irish language pre-school, which was set to be the first to open in the traditionally unionist heartland of east Belfast, says it has been forced to relocate because of a social media hate campaign. Naíscoil na Sceolta, which says it is the first fully-integrated cross-community Irish pre-school in the…

Updated Jul 28th 2021, 6:02 AM POLICE IN BELFAST have made an arrest and launched a murder investigation following the death of a child in the Ardoyne area.  A woman was arrested following the incident involving two young children in the Ardoyne area in the north of the city yesterday…