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Belfast republican Bobby Storey, who was one of the leaders of the Maze prison escape of 1983 and later became Sinn Féin’s Northern chairman, has died. Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald paid tribute to him as a “great republican” and said news of his death would be “received with…

Image copyright PA Media Image caption Titanic Belfast, a major visitor attraction, will reopen on 1 August but expects visitor numbers to be just 30% of what they were in 2019 Northern Ireland's tourism industry got welcome news this week when it was announced its lockdown will end earlier than…

Image caption A banner saying "GAA not welcome" appeared at Grove Playing Fields in north Belfast last weekend There have been calls for political unity following a series of sectarian incidents in a council-owned park in north Belfast.Politicians have said a group of men at Grove Playing Fields on Thursday…

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - At 7am on Friday morning, Dean d’Arco, 31, a phone shop manager from Belfast, Northern Ireland, logged on for his last day as a round-the-clock armchair stock market trader.Daytrader Damian McVeigh sits in front of computers with his daughter Avril at home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…

Ears have always been the most recognizable feature of rabbits, making it hard to imagine how they would look without them. Nevertheless, nature works in peculiar ways, and sometimes a rabbit is born with no fluffy, pointy ears in sight. Recently, one such bunny was born to an owner named…

Image copyright PAcemaker The boss of Belfast International Airport has said the quarantine measures are "a stake through the heart" of its summer trade.More passenger flights are returning to Northern Ireland, as the easing of coronavirus restrictions continue.Easyjet restarted its services to seven UK destinations as well as Portugal.Graham Keddie,…

Netflix’s library is still growing in June with 21 new shows, movies, and specials this week. There aren’t many familiar names on the list this week, but Ryan Murphy’s The Politician is returning for its second season, for those of you who liked the first. There’s also an anime movie…

Protests against police brutality continue around the country, but not everyone who wants can participate. Whether immunocompromised, living with someone in a high risk group for COVID-19, or simply too far away to attend a protest, people around the world have found their own way to engage: livestreams.  Leigh Wallace,…

British cancer doctor Prof Karol Sikora recently claimed that the current COVID-19 pandemic would “burn itself out”. His thinking is that if there are more infections than we realize, and that those milder, unrecorded infections result in robust immunity, then this would quickly lead to “herd immunity”, leaving the virus…

Robert F. Bukaty | AP Robert F. Bukaty | AP In this May 29, 2020, file photo, Eric Pray unpacks a lobster on a wharf in Portland. Pray is one of many fishermen and farmers who have pivoted quickly to sell to directly to consumers after the coronavirus shutdown cut…