Belfast will host Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in August 2026, Belfast City Council confirmed on Saturday, March 8. Established in 1951, the Fleadh takes place in Ireland every August with ...

A Belfast woman who was charged alongside a man with committing an act outraging public decency has died, a court has been told. Gillian Portis (50) and 37-year old Adrian Matthew Reid were ...

The Thales arms factory in Belfast will manufacture 5,000 air defence missiles for Ukraine as part of a deal worth up to €1.9 billion (£1.6 billion), British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.

A Belfast-based IT firm has announced its axing 190 jobs in response to challenging trading conditions which are causing clients to delay making decisions on projects. Kainos plc, the only NI ...

A Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter equipped with the Martlet missile system The Thales missile factory in Belfast is to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine, the prime minister has announced.

The inability to purchase cross-border travel tickets from machines at Belfast Grand Central Station has been branded “embarrassing” almost six months on from the opening of the £340m hub.

A man who was arrested at a protest in Belfast on Sunday has been charged with disorderly behaviour and attempted criminal damage. The 44-year-old is to appear before Belfast Magistrates' Court on ...

The world's largest festival of Irish music and dance is to take place in Belfast in 2026. Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann - the All-Ireland Fleadh - is held for a week during August and, in the past ...

McIlvenny, originally from Twinbrook in Belfast, but whose address was given as Hydebank Young Offenders Centre, pleaded guilty to 77 charges. They included ten rapes and attempted rapes and 20 ...

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday (March 7, 2025) inaugurated a new Consulate General of India in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to cater to the needs of a growing Indian diaspora in ...

Kainos, the Belfast-based IT firm, is making 190 of its staff redundant. It currently employs about 3,000 people, mostly in Northern Ireland. In December, the company replaced its recently ...

The BBC said the missiles would be the lightweight multirole missiles (LMMs) manufactured by French arms maker Thales’s factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the funding would include the hiring ...