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Burning of boat containing dark-skinned mannequins in lifejackets in Moygashel draws widespread condemnationPolice in Northern Ireland are investigating a loyalist bonfire that featured effigies of refugees sitting in a boat as a hate incident.Crowds i…
Woodland Trust’s 10 nominees from across the country highlight how trees inspire creative minds A cedar tree climbed by the Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland are among those shortlis…
Sinn Féin has said failing to tear down pyre would be victory for mob rule, but PSNI says intervention carries more riskPolice have refused a Belfast city council request to help dismantle a controversial loyalist bonfire that is believed to pose risks…
Plan to burn depiction of boat carrying migrants in Moygashel denounced as disgusting and hatefulA loyalist bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets has been condemned as sick and racist.The effi…
Plan to burn depiction of boat carrying migrants in Moygashel denounced as disgusting and hatefulA loyalist bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets has been condemned as sick and racist.The effi…
Bridget Phillipson says there will be better outcomes for all children than at present but fails to guarantee EHCPs will continue in their current formThe Conservatives will try to change the government’s welfare Bill to tighten up access to personal i…
Long-planned, £187,000 tribute to women who worked in shirt factories is criticised as too abstract and inaccurateAfter decades of debate over how to honour the women who used to work in the city’s shirt factories, Derry has produced a sculpture of thr…
Estimate by disability charity published on eve of MPs’ vote on restricting welfare payments for new claimantsThe extra cost of being disabled is on course to rise by almost 12% to £14,688 in five years, according to a new estimate published on the eve…
PSNI says man, 28, is held on suspicion of murder of Sarah Montgomery, 27, a mother of two, in DonaghadeeA murder investigation is under way after a pregnant woman was found dead in County Down, Northern Ireland, say police.The Police Service of Northe…
Goal of reconciliation has become ‘undisguised unionist veto’, some argue amid dwindling momentum for voteIn Northern Ireland, it used to be the one goal that everyone could agree on: reconciliation. Whether the region stayed in the UK or united with I…