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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…

Updated / Saturday, 6 Jun 2020 17:03 Artist Mickey Docherty removes a photo used to paint a mural of George Floyd in Belfast A new mural on west Belfast's international wall dedicated to George Floyd is an expression of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter campaign, the local MP has…

The death of George Floyd has resonated worldwide, and the proof can be found on buildings from Minneapolis to Montreal, Belfast to Berlin.Here are some of the striking murals we have seen as street artists pay tribute to Floyd and show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.Read More