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Belfast’s LGBTQ Pride parade is being held online this year with a virtual celebration instead of the usual colourful street parade. The city’s 30th LGBTQ celebration was postponed due to the pandemic and an online event has been organised on Saturday instead on Facebook. Last year’s parade was the biggest…

Updated / Saturday, 1 Aug 2020 19:14 Belfast City Hall is being lit up with rainbow colours for Pride (pic @belfastcc on Twitter) Belfast's LGBTQ Pride parade is being held online this year with a virtual celebration instead of the usual colourful street parade. The city's 30th LGBTQ celebration was…

Two former police officers will not be prosecuted over fatal shootings in Belfast 50 years ago. The first child to be killed in the Troubles, Patrick Rooney, nine, along with 20-year-old Hugh McCabe and Samuel McLarnon, 28, died in separate incidents amid significant civil disorder in Belfast on 15 August…

Updated / Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 18:40 Christine Connor pictured today outside Belfast Crown Court A north Belfast woman was today found guilty of attempting to murder a police officer in 2013.    Christine Connor, 35, described by police previously as a lone wolf dissident republican, was remanded in custody…

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A coroner in Belfast has appealed to members of the public with any information about the movements of teenager Noah Donohoe on the day he disappeared last month to help his family establish what happened. The body of the 14-year-old boy was found in a storm drain in north Belfast on…

IRA bomber, 44, living in Boston is deported to Belfast after entering the US multiple times between 2000 and 2007 under the visa waiver program and never disclosing his criminal historyDarcey McMenamin, 44, was deported on Monday after trying to plead his case in court in MassachusettsHe was 18 when…

Twenty weeks to the day after Flybe collapsed, the airport worst hit by the collapse has announced that six vacant routes are to be filled by the autumn. Britain’s biggest regional airline failed in the early hours of 5 March 2020, as the coronavirus crisis was starting to affect aviation.…

Aer Lingus and Stobart Air are to operate six new routes from Belfast City Airport.They will fly to Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, East Midlands, Leeds-Bradford and Exeter.The new services will start on a phased basis from August.Belfast City's chief executive Brian Ambrose said the airport is "delighted Aer Lingus is to…

Donegal native, Belfast-based musician Joel Harkin has released his new single, Vada. We asked him the BIG questions . . .  Harkin recently released his debut album Never Happy and played Other Voices Mayo and Output Belfast last February. He has also supported Junior Brother, Joshua Burnside and Kitt Phillipa.  His…