Belfast

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…

Police in Belfast have opened a murder inquiry following the death of a child in the Ardoyne area on Tuesday evening. The PSNI said it was investigating the child’s death at a house in Brompton Park and that a woman had been arrested in connection with the matter. Ambulance crews…

A Belfast plastic surgeon says there's an 'increase in interest' in plastic surgery every time there's a new series of reality show Love Island. However, he has warned that surgery can make conditions such as body dysmorphia - an "unhealthy obsession" where someone can't stop thinking about a perceived flaw…

Two health trusts in Northern Ireland have made emergency appeals for off-duty staff to come into work as hospitals come under increased pressure. The Belfast and South Eastern trusts issued the callouts on Sunday. The Belfast Trust said there was “extreme pressure” in the Royal Victoria and Mater hospitals due…