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The children's football coach has been permanently banned from the league for sending the cocaine message. Photo / Darrian Traynor, Getty Images for Football Australia The children's football coach has been permanently banned from the league for sending the cocaine message. Photo / Darrian Traynor, Getty Images for Football Australia…

There's a particular kind of coherence that only comes from thinking about everything at once. A recent project from Crown Creative demonstrates exactly that: it's work where brand identity, interior design and digital experience aren't just aligned, but built from the same idea. The Belfast-based studio was working with Birch…

Article content The timing was particularly bad for Sue Bacarro, who along with her sister co-owns Digi Wildflowers, an Etsy shop that sells embroidered baby blankets, gifts and custom quilts for wedding and anniversaries, located across the border from Detroit in Windsor, Ontario. Article content Before the announcement of the…

Featuring DeepHash as a Leading Platform Belfast, United Kingdom — 2025 As cryptocurrency adoption accelerates across global markets, cloud mining has emerged as one of the most reliable and convenient ways for investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. By eliminating hardware purchases, electricity costs and technical…

The Dundalk institute will retain its current financial, staffing and governance autonomy. Alamy Stock Photo the big leagues Dundalk Institute of Technology will be established as a university college of Queen’s University Belfast. IRELAND IS GETTING its first cross-border college with a partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and Dundalk Institute…

BBC Finally, it’s official: “Line of Duty” is coming back. Jed Mercurio’s hit UK police procedural will return to the BBC for a seventh season with Vicky McClure, Martin Compston and Adrian Dunbar all reprising their roles. The new six-part series, created and written by Mercurio, will begin filming in…

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s 11am and I’m having coffee. But as this is a ‘Belfast coffee’, it’s a cream-topped cold brew laced with a shot of poitín, served at the capital city’s snug-boothed 19th-century Garrick pub. “It’s the sort of thing you used to…

There’s an increasingly common new design feature in the ladies’ loos that one woman believes is an “absolute nuisance”.  On Moncrieff ,  Irish Independent columnist Sarah Carey said she most recently encountered it at the brand new Grand Central Station in Belfast, which opened last year to great fanfare.   “When…

Jack Lisowski pipped world No 1 and 'best friend' Judd Trump in the Northern Ireland Open to claim his first snooker ranking title after six previous defeats in finals. Lisowski won 9-8 in Belfast, taking the deciding frame 73-7 after Trump - who remains without a title since winning the…

Stock photo Adrian Rutherford Sat 25 Oct 2025 at 14:33 A baby was threatened with broken glass during “an absolutely shocking” hijacking in Belfast city centre. Police said the incident happened in the Donegall Place area in the early hours of this morning. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel Stay…