A High Court ruling that Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law breaches the human rights of pregnant women has been condemned by pro-life groups. Currently, abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland except where the life or mental health of the mother
BELFAST – A British exit from the European Union (EU) would not wreck Northern Ireland’s economy, the minister widely expected to be named the province’s next leader said on Monday, urging London to be bolder in its renegotiation with Brussels.
BELFAST, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Irish nationalist leader Gerry Adams will not face prosecution over the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service said on Tuesday, more than a year after he was briefly arrested over
An ex-Sinn Fein councillor has attacked his town as “far right” amid local opposition to accepting thousands of Syrians, claiming the migrants would be better treated in Syria. Padraig McShane is a representative for Coleraine, County Antrim. He was unimpressed when
Britain and Ireland will try to resume crisis talks with Northern Ireland’s Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist parties on Monday in a bid to save a power-sharing government that ended decades of sectarian violence. The British province’s devolved administration is
Hundred of supporters gathered outside a Belfast court yesterday in support of the Northern Ireland pastor who called Islam “heathen.” There are “scores” of witnesses willing to testify for the pastor, who said he was ready to go to jail for his beliefs.
Police in Northern Ireland are spending valuable resources investigating an alleged hate crime after three men holding a Northern Ireland flag stood outside an Islamic prayer centre. A member of the public contacted the police, complaining that the men had
A gay couple in Northern Ireland are set to legally challenge the current ban on same sex marriage in the region, on the grounds that it discriminates against their religious beliefs. The High Court action comes after a similar case
The Belfast pastor who said Islam was “satanic” and “heathen” is to make his first appearance in court today. The elderly man, who is in ill health, faces up to six-moths in jail for making the remarks. Pastor James McConnell,
Gangs of Irish nationalists hurled petrol bombs and other missiles at police sent to a County Armagh town after a hoax bomb alert, and another device exploded nearby, police said on Sunday. The second device, which police said was clearly
A Christian pastor from Northern Ireland is facing six months in prison for making “offensive” remarks about Islam. Yet the man pushing for his prosecution – who has used the controversy to leverage government into supplying land for a mega-mosque
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the terrorist bombing of London’s Carlton Club. At 8:39 p.m. on Monday 25 June 1990, a large bomb left inside the doorway of the “oldest, most elite, and most important of all Conservative clubs” by the Provisional Irish
An evangelical Christian pastor has said he would rather go to prison than withdraw a comment calling Islam “satanic”. Pastor James McConnell of the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is facing prosecution under the Communications Act 2003 for
About 3,000 people are expected to march in Belfast today calling for the introduction of gay marriage in Northern Ireland. The province is the now the only part of the British Isles where civil marriage has not been redefined to
Ireland’s most famous drag queen, Panti Bliss (also known as Rory O’Neill) is backing the campaign for same-sex civil marriage in Northern Ireland. The high profile campaigner for gay marriage in the Irish Republic’s historic referendum was speaking ahead of
Britain’s polling organizations fail disastrously; Pre-election polls and Chaos Theory; British and Israeli elections reflected nationalistic surges; Trends in American politics
The Westminster group leader of the Northern Ireland pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has taken aim at the Conservative’s increasingly strident rhetoric over Scotland and the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), which they claim will damage the Union. Writing for the Guardian
The IRA are set to make a staggering £22 million a year more in counterfeit cigarettes when plain packaging legislation goes through because the packs are so much easier to fake. Police in Ireland have said that pain packaging is
Tony Blair has claimed that “comfort letters” guaranteeing terror suspects would never be prosecuted for their crimes were vital to the Northern Ireland peace process. The former Prime Minister was being grilled by MPs about his role in giving anonymity
Margaret Thatcher feared an Asian uprising if Irish nationalists were granted changes in the way Northern Ireland and its institutions were run. In talks with the then Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald in the run up to the 1984 Anglo-Irish agreement,
Actor and Northern Ireland native Liam Neeson was considering a move back to his home country, but he changed his mind after the government introduced a new charge on water, according to a new report.
