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Country diary: A horse chestnut that knows a bit about risk and reward

Ormeau Park, Belfast: Planted in a perilous position by an inveterate gambler, this grand specimen has been bearing fruit for about 200 years

The Guardian - UK

Emergency services called for Aer Lingus flight as ‘panelling falls’ after take-off from Belfast

The Leeds-bound Aer Lingus Regional journey was diverted ‘due to a technical issue’

The Independent UK

Sex, grief and debauchery: Gráinne O’Hare on her blazing millennial novel Thirst Trap

INTERVIEW: As post-Sally Rooney Irish lit is booming, the 32-year-old writer talks to Ellie Harrison about her tale of a group of Belfast women stumbling through life and loss as they wave their twenties goodbye

The Independent UK

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Barry McIlheney obituary

Journalist and publisher who was editor of Smash Hits and Empire magazines and known for his lively, irreverent style

The Guardian - UK

Antrim Gaels urge Secretary of State to honour promises around Casement Park

Representatives of the South Antrim GAA handed a letter for Hilary Benn in at Erskine House in Belfast city centre on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Belfast Hills project helping young people with anxiety

More than a quarter of parents or guardians across the UK have said their child has struggled with anxiety.

The Independent UK

Murder investigation after death of woman in north Belfast

Marie Green, 71, was pronounced dead at a house in the early hours of Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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Belfast tech company invests £1.8m in cybersecurity solution for factory floors

Economy minister Caoimhe Archibald attended the announcement by ANGOKA.

Evening Standard

50th anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s landmark collection on Troubles to be marked

A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

Evening Standard

Ghost Wedding by David Park review – a thought-provoking novel about the power of the past

The romance is beautifully drawn in this tale of two couples whose lives overlap at a Northern Irish manor house, a century apart

The Guardian - UK

Kneecap pulled from TRNSMT festival lineup due to safety concerns

The Belfast rap trio were due to perform at the festival on July 11

The Independent UK

Kneecap will no longer perform at TRNSMT festival amid police ‘safety concerns’

The Belfast rap trio have scheduled a date an O2 Academy in July, the band said.

Evening Standard

Hockey night in Belfast: How Canada’s sport could be bridging longtime sectarian divides

In its simplest form, the protracted tensions in Northern Ireland have at their foundation two separate sectarian identities deeply divided over how, and by whom, they are governed — Protestant/Unionist populations wishing to maintain British rule and Catholic/Nationalists desiring a united Ireland.

The Conversation

Peaceful protest ‘should not be criminalised’, says O’Toole

Stormont Opposition Leader Matthew O’Toole was speaking after the arrest of two protesters on suspicion of criminal damage.

Evening Standard

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Historic Belfast picturehouse going back to the future in £6.5 million revamp

The Strand in east Belfast is set to reopen in summer 2026 following a major redevelopment.

Evening Standard

Government approach to Omagh bomb hearing ‘risks undermining public confidence’

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry, chaired by Lord Turnbull, is holding procedural hearings in Belfast.

The Conversation

An 18th-century rebellion for liberty, equality and freedom − not in France or the United States, but Ireland

Shortly before midnight on May 23, 1798, highwaymen just north of Dublin intercepted and set on fire a mail coach headed to Belfast.

Evening Standard

UK and Irish governments ‘working intensively’ to find agreement on legacy

Tanaiste Simon Harris met political leaders in Belfast on Monday to discuss ongoing efforts to shape mechanisms for dealing with legacy issues.

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The Guardian - UK

Andy Tyrie obituary

Leader of the UDA, the loyalist paramilitary group, who played a key role in the Ulster Workers’ Council strike of 1974

Salon

Irish rappers turned Fox News villains

Belfast rap trio Kneecap made global headlines at Coachella — and right-wing enemies. It's a classic Irish story

The Independent UK

Paul Hughes sends Belfast into frenzy with 42-second KO and Usman Nurmagomedov callout

Hughes quickly saw off Bruno Miranda before turning his attention to the man who beat him in January, the PFL lightweight champion

Evening Standard

No explanation why weapons were in boot of loyalist’s car, court hears

Winston Irvine and Robin Workman will be sentenced next week for firearms offences.

Evening Standard

Young and old enjoy spring sunshine at VE Day party in east Belfast

The event in the city’s Woodstock Road came ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why Kneecap should play Glastonbury: 'to deplatform them is dangerous'

Kneecap are at the centre of a media storm but - as the bands Sleaford Mods, SOFT PLAY and The Horrors tell us, if they are removed from the bill at Glastonbury, that will set a precedent for creative self-censorship

Evening Standard

Victims urge boycott of new Troubles legacy body during protest at its office

The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery was established as part of the last government’s contentious Legacy Act.

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